JUDGMENT :

1. This First Appeal From Order is by the National Insurance Company Ltd. challenging a judgment/award of the Motor Accident Claim Tribunal/Additional District Judge, Court No.6, Bijnor, dated 31.5.2018, passed in M.A.C.P. No.90 of 2017, whereby the claim petition has been allowed in part. The claim for compensation has been decreed to the extent of Rs.18,04,214/-, together with interest at the rate of 7% per annum, from the date of filing of the claim petition till its realization. A sum of Rs.10,00,000/- has been directed to be deposited in some Nationalized Bank as fixed deposit for a period of 03 years. Aggrieved by this determination, the present appeal has been filed under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988.

2. Brief facts giving rise to filing of this appeal are that claimant was coming from Amroha to his village Mahdood Nasho in his Swift Car No. DL08 CAD 4367 on 29.5.2016 together with his brothers when he was hit by speeding truck coming from other side at about 8.30 p.m. The head-on collision resulted in serious injuries being caused to the claima