JUDGMENT :

VIRENDER SINGH, J.

1. Appellant­Coastal Projects Private Limited has preferred the present appeal, under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, as amended up to date, (hereinafter referred to as ‘the M.V. Act’), against the award dated 12.3.2013, passed by the Court of learned Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (II), Mandi, District Mandi, H.P. (hereinafter, referred to as the ‘learned Tribunal’) in Claim Petition No. 86 of 2006, titled as Smt. Bhakti Devi and Others vs. The New India Assurance Company Limited and Another.

2. By way of award dated 12.3.2013, the learned Tribunal has allowed the claim petition filed by respondents No. 1 to 4, by awarding a sum of Rs.11,17,320/­ along with interest @ 7.5% per annum, from the date of filing of the petition, till deposit. However, the ultimate liability to pay the amount of compensation has been put on the appellant­ Company, being owner of vehicle No. HP­66­0774 (hereinafter referred to as the offending vehicle).

3. For the sake of convenience, the parties to the present lis are, hereinafter, referred to, in the same mann