1. This appeal has been preferred by the claimants under S.173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (for short 'the Act of 1988') seeking enhancement of the award under appeal dated 17.8.2017 passed by the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal, Mungeli (for short 'the Claims Tribunal') in Claim Case No. 11 of 2017, whereby the Tribunal has awarded a total amount of compensation to the tune of Rs. 7,22,200 with 9 per cent interest per annum from the date of filing of the claim petition till its realization. The parties to this appeal shall be referred hereinafter as per their description in the court below.

2. Briefly stated the facts of the case are that on 18.8.2016 at 3.15 p.m., deceased Sumendra alias Ramesh Singh Maravi was going along with his friend namely Dujram Dhruv from Litiya to village Changori and at the relevant time, they were dashed vehemently from their back side by the offending vehicle (truck) bearing registration No. CG 10 - A 5978 owned by non - applicant No. 2 - Bhajan Singh and insured with non - applicant No. 3 - New India Assurance Co. Ltd. owing to rash and negligent driving by its driver, non - applicant No. 1 - Bhavani Singh. As a result of the alleged accident, d