JUDGMENT :

Instant appeal filed under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act ( for short ‘Act’),lays challenge to award dated 1.04.2017, passed by Motor Accident Claims Tribunal-I, Solan, District Solan, H.P., in M.A.C. No.24-S/2 of 2015, whereby learned Tribunal below while allowing the claim petition, having been filed by respondent-claimant (hereinafter referred to as the ‘claimant’) claiming therein compensation on account of death of Daya Nand i.e. son of the respondent-claimant in an accident, which took place on 28.12.2014, near Ded Gharat, Kandaghat involving truck/vehicle bearing registration No. HR-38-M-5943, owned by respondent No.1, driven by respondent No.2 and insured with appellant-respondent No.3, awarded compensation to the tune of Rs.9,14,000/- alongwith interest at the rate of 7.5% per annum from the date of filing of the petition till its realization in favour of the respondent-claimant. Since appellant-Insurance Company came to be saddled with liability to pay compensation being insurer of the ill-fated vehicle involved in the accident, it has approached this Cour