JUDGMENT :

This appeal under Section 173(1) of the Motor Vehicles Act (for short “the Act’) has been preferred by the appellant-claimant, challenging the Award dated 22.02.2006, in M.V.O.P.No.575 of 2003 delivered by the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal –cum- V Additional District Judge, Kurnool at Nandyal (for short ‘the Tribunal’), granting compensation of Rs.2,05,000/- along with interest @ 7.5% per annum thereon, from the date of the petition till the date of realization, to the petitioner-injured against the 1st & 2nd respondents jointly and severally, on account of the injuries sustained in a road traffic accident at Koilkuntla Town.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties are referred to as they are arrayed before the Tribunal.

3. The factual context of the case is as under:

a) A 43-year-old Chinna Obaiahgari Mohan Reddy was a Commission Agent and landlord. At the time of the accident, the claimant was getting an annual income of more than Rs.1,00,000/-, as per the income tax returns filed before the Income Tax Department. On 27.02.2003 at about 3.00 p.m., while the petit