JUDGMENT :

Ravi Nath Tilhari, J.

1. Heard Ms. Pooja Arora, holding brief of Sri Prabhakar Tiwari, learned counsel for the appellant.

2. Instant appeal under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 has been filed against the judgment and award dated 24.03.2021 passed by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (South), Lucknow (in short ‘the Tribunal’) in Motor Accident Claims No. 134/2018 (Ram Sumer Singh and Ors. vs. Assistant General Manager, Uttrakhand, State Road Transport Corporation, Kotdwar, Garhwal, Uttrakhand and Anr.).

3. By award dated 24.03.2021, the Tribunal has awarded compensation of Rs. 9,26,800/- along with interest @ 7 per cent from the date of filing claim petition till the date of payment to the claimant/respondent nos. 1 to 3.

4. The facts of the case are that the claimant-respondents filed claim petition no. 134/18 before the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Lucknow claiming compensation of Rs. 1,00,20,000/- on account of death of late Sujit Singh, in the accident dated 10.11.2016, near Shyampur on Najeebabad-Haridwar National Highway no. 74 caused due to rash and negligent driving of Driver of the Bus bearing Registration No. UK 07 PA 3177 of the Uttrakhand State Roa