JUDGMENT :

Kaushal Jayendra Thaker, J.

1. Heard Sri B.P. Verma, learned counsel for the appellants, Sri Devendra Kumar, Advocate has absented himself even in the third round. We have perused the award and record of the Tribunal impugned.

2. This appeal, at the behest of the claimants, challenges the judgment and order dated 6.2.2004 passed by Motor Accident Claims Tribunal/Additional District Judge, Court No.1, Meerut (hereinafter referred to as 'Tribunal') in M.A.C.No.494 of 2002 awarding a sum of Rs.1,77,375/- with interest at the rate of 7% as compensation.

3. Brief facts as culled out from the record are that on 26.2.2002, the deceased-Satyadev Sharma was going on scooter No. U.P.-15 G/7219 from L. Block Shastri Nagar to Tejgarhi and when he reached near Bank of Baroda then Tanker No. U.P.No.9002 hit the scooter from behind. He was treated in Lokpriya Hospital Meerut and Apollo Hospital Delhi and ultimately on 4.3.2002, he died. A very strange accident has occurred whereby a young person after being hit by a bus and tanker, died after about ten days in the hospital. Tribunal ve