JUDGMENT:

This appeal is preferred by the 2nd respondent/APSRTC, challenging the award dated 12.01.2015 passed in M.V.O.P.No.608/2013 on the file of Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal-cum- VII Addl.District Judge, Vijayawada, wherein the Tribunal while partly allowing the petition, awarded compensation of Rs.6,76,200/- with interest @ 7.5% P.A. from the date of petition, till the date of realisation to the petitioners/claimants for the death of Kesara Venkateswara Reddy.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties are arrayed as parties in the lower Court.

3. As seen from the record, originally the petitioners filed an application U/s.166 r/w.455 of Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (for brevity “the Act”) claiming compensation of Rs.8,00,000/- on account of the death of Kesara Venkateswara Reddy, who is father of petitioners 1 and 2 and son of 3rd petitioner, in a motor vehicle accident occurred on 10.04.2012, while the deceased was travelling as a pillion rider on TVS Moped bearing No.AP 16 4979, by the offending bus bearing No.AP29A 9722 belonging to the appellant/APSRTC, which met with an accident at Nirmala convent road junction on NH-5, Vijayawada.

4. The facts show that on 10.04.2012 while