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2002 Supreme(SC) 511

D.P.MOHAPATRA, D.M.DHARMADHIKARI, BRIJESH KUMAR
Rajender Kumar – Appellant
Versus
Rambhai – Respondent


ORDER

Leave granted.

2. This appeal filed by the children of the deceased Smt. Susheela Bai who died in a motor accident on 12.12.1988, is directed against the judgment rendered by a division bench of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh reviewing order dated 9.8.1999 and reducing the compensation awarded in favour of the appellants.

3. Shorn of unnecessary details, relevant facts leading to the present proceeding may be stated thus:

The accident occurred due to a collision between the bus owned by the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation, respondent No. 3 herein, and the lorry owned by respondent No. 1 and insured with respondent No. 2. In the said accident, Smt. Susheela Bai, who was a passenger in the bus, sustained multiple injuries and expired on the same day. Her children, who are the appellants herein, filed an application claiming Rs. 3,50,000/- as compensation for death of their mother. The tribunal on appreciation of the materials on record awarded a sum of Rs. 65,300/- in favour of the appellants. Feeling aggrieved by the award of the tribunal, the appellants herein filed an appeal in the High Court. The learned single judge who decided the appeal enhanced the compens






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