JUDGMENT:

This appeal is preferred by the Appellant/APSRTC, challenging the award dated 12.01.2016 passed in M.V.O.P.No.5/2014 on the file of Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal-cum-IX Addl.District Judge, Chittoor, (for short ‘the Tribunal’), wherein the Tribunal while allowing the petition, awarded compensation of Rs.12,73,000/- with interest @ 7.5% p.a. from the date of petition, till the date of realisation for the death of N.Raghu @ Raghavulu in a motor vehicle accident.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties will be referred to as parties in the M.V.O.P.

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.10,00,000/- on account of the death of N.Raghu @ Raghavulu in a motor vehicle accident that occurred on 12.09.2012.

4. The facts would show that the 1st petitioner is the wife, petitioners No.2 to 4 are the children, petitioner No.5 is the mother of the deceased N.Raghu @ Raghavulu. On 12.09.2012 at about 10.45 a.m. the deceased N.Raghu in order to attend his duty as a tiles slab worker at Bangarupalem, while he was proceeding towards Bangarupalem on extreme lef