JUDGMENT :

SANJAY DHAR, J.

1. The appellant insurance company has challenged the award dated 13.06.2015, passed by Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Anantnag (for short “the Tribunal”) whereby a sum of Rs. 9,10,000/- along with interest @ 7.5% per annum has been awarded as compensation in favour of the claimants/respondent Nos. 1 and 2 to be payable by the appellant insurance company.

2. The instant appeal owes its genesis to a motor vehicular accident that took place on 15.03.2012 at Tulkhun Bijbehara, when a vehicle bearing No. JK-03B-9192 that was being driven rashly and negligently by its driver, the respondent No. 4 herein, knocked down mother of the claimants, the respondent Nos. 1 and 2 herein, resulting in her death.

3. The claim petition was resisted by the appellant insurance company as well as by the owner and driver of the offending vehicle i.e. respondent Nos. 3 and 4 herein, by filing their pleadings in answer to the claim petition. All the respondents before the Tribunal denied the occurrence. The appellant insurance company, while admitting that the offending vehicl