JUDGMENT:

(Heard and pronounced through Blue Jeans App (Virtual) mode, since this mode is adopted on account of prevalence of COVID-19 pandemic)

These two appeals are being disposed of by this common judgment, as they arise out of the same accident and the respondents in the original petitions are one and the same.

2. Both the appeals were preferred by the National Insurance Company Limited, aggrieved by the awards dated 03.08.2005 in M.V.O.P.Nos.386 of 2002 and 387 of 2002 on the file of the Chairman, Motor Accident Claims Tribunal-cum-III Additional District Judge, Cuddapah, (for short ‘the Claims Tribunal’).

3. For the sake of convenience, the parties are hereinafter referred to, as they were arrayed before the Tribunal in the original petitions.

4. The original petitions were filed by two injured persons/claimants separately seeking compensation for the injuries sustained by them in a motor vehicle accident that occurred on 19.06.1999. The claimants are residents of Bidinamcherla Village. On 19.06.1999, after completion of personal work of the 1st respondent in Hyderabad, while they along with others were returning back in a Jeep of the 1st respondent to their village and when the J