JUDGMENT :

T. MALLIKARJUNA RAO, J.

1. Aggrieved by the Judgment dated 19.01.2013 in MVOP No. 350 of 2012 passed by the Chairman, Motor Accident Claims Tribunal-Cum-VI Additional District Judge (FTC), Gooty (for short ‘the Tribunal’) the APSRTC, the respondent in MVOP preferred this appeal questioning the correctness of the award passed by the Tribunal.

2. For convenience's sake, hereinafter, the parties will be referred to as arrayed in MVOP.

3. The petitioner filed the claim under Sections 140 and 166 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, for the injuries he sustained in Motor Vehicle Accident that occurred on 16.04.2012.

4. The petitioner's case is that on 16.04.2012 at about 02.15 AM, the petitioner, along with his colleague, reached APSRTC Bus stand, Nandyal, to go to Tamil Nadu on duty. When he was about to get onto the APSRTC Bus of respondent carefully by putting his leg on the footboard, the driver of the offending APSRTC bus suddenly reversed the bus without any precautions and without hearing the calls made by him. As a result, he fell near the footboard. The left front tyre of