JUDGMENT :

The appellant is 2nd respondent/Insurance company and the respondents are claim petitioners and respondent Nos.1 and 3 to 5 in M.V.O.P.No.567 of 2011 on the file of the Chairman, Motor Accident Claims Tribunal-cum-VI Additional District Judge, Anantapur at Gooty. The appellant filed the appeal questioning the legal validity of the order of the Tribunal.

2. For the sake of convenience, both the parties in the appeal will be referred to as they are arrayed in the claim application.

3. The claim petitioners filed the petition under Sections 140 and 166 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 claiming compensation of Rs.5,00,000/- for the death of the deceased, who is son of petitioner Nos.1 and 2 and elder brother of 3rd petitioner, in a motor vehicle accident that took place on 09.08.2011.

4. The brief averments in the petition filed by the petitioners are as follows:

On 09.08.2011 at about 11.00 a.m. the deceased and his colleagues went for selling the product of Power Excel Powder at Singanamala village and after completing their work at about 7.45 p.m. they were returning in an auto to Anantapur and when they reached near SRIT Engineering College on anantapur-Tadipatri road, one APS