JUDGMENT:

This appeal is preferred by the Appellant/2nd respondent/Cholamandalam M.S. General Insurance Company, Chennai, challenging the award dated 06.09.2016 passed in M.V.O.P.No.328/2014 on the file of Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal-cum-VIII Addl.District Judge, Chittoor, (for short ‘the Tribunal’), wherein the Tribunal while partly allowing the petition, awarded compensation of Rs.18,36,000/-with interest @ 7.5% p.a. from the date of petition, till the date of deposit, for the death of G.Nanda Kumar in a motor vehicle accident.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties will be arrayed as parties before the Tribunal.

3. As seen from the record, originally the petitioners filed an application U/s.166 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (for brevity “the Act”) claiming a compensation of Rs.25,00,000/-on account of the death of G.Nanda Kumar in a motor vehicle accident that occurred on 04.04.2014.

4. The facts would show that the petitioners are the parents of deceased G.Nanda Kumar. On 04.04.2014 at about 04.00 p.m. the deceased G.Nanda Kumar was proceeding on his Suzuki Access Scooty bearing No.AP 05 CF 8080 to K.L.University, Vaddeswaram, and by that time, the driver of truck auto b