JUDGMENT :

Ajai Tyagi, J.

1. This appeal has been preferred by the claimants-appellants against the judgment & order dated 30.05.2008 passed by learned Motor Accident Claims Tribunal/Additional District Judge, Court No.4, District Ghaziabad in Motor Accident Claim Petition No.158 of 2006 (Smt. Raj Biri and Others Vs. Regional Manager, Regional Office, U.P. State Road Transport Corporation), whereby the learned Tribunal has awarded a sum of Rs.2,51,600/-as compensation to the claimants with interest at the rate of 6% per annum.

2. The brief facts of the case are that claimants-appellants filed a Motor Accident Claim Petition before the Tribunal for claiming the compensation under Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 for the death of Mahesh in a road accident with the averments that on 19.12.2005, Mahesh-deceased along with his friends was going to his house from Delhi by tractor, when he reached at village Luhari, a bus bearing no. U.P. 14 T 9563 was coming, which was being driven very rashly and negligently by its driver. The aforesaid bus being driven in such a manner dashed the deceased’s t