JUDGMENT :-Appellants filed a claim petition under Section 166 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (the Act) seeking compensation of Rs.2,00,000/- for the death of their unmarried son Ramesh Kumar Tiwari (the deceased) said to be aged 22 years earning about Rs.4,000/- p.m. as a cashier in Geetha Trading Company, alleging that when the deceased along with his friend was proceeding on a scooter, a lorry belonging to the first respondent and insured with the second respondent being driven in a rash and negligent manner came in the opposite direction of the scooter and dashed the scooter resulting in the death of the deceased.

2. First respondent chose to remain ex parte.

3. Second respondent filed its counter inter alia putting the appellants to proof of the averments in the petition.

4. The claim petition filed by the appellants and another claim petition filed by the legal representatives of another victim were clubbed and common evidence was recorded. In support of the case of the appellants, first appellant was examined as P.W.2 and the first claimant in another claim petition filed by the legal representative of the other victim was examined as P.W.1 and another witness was examined as

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