JUDGMENT :

This Civil Miscellaneous Appeal is filed by the appellant/R3/insurance company under Section 173 of Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (hereinafter referred to as M.V. Act) challenging the award passed by the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal – cum – XII Additional District Judge, East Godavari District, at Pithapuram, in M.V.O.P.No.44 of 2017 dated 20.07.2018 wherein and whereby the Tribunal awarded compensation of Rs.24,60,000/- to the respondents 1 and 2/petitioners for the death of Kum.Guna Lakshmi Krishna Dharani(herein after referred to as ‘the deceased’) in a motor vehicle accident that occurred on 13.11.2016 at about 11.45 a.m.

2. The appellant/insurance company and respondents 1 and 2 hereinafter referred to as R3 and petitioners as arrayed before the Tribunal, for the sake of brevity and convenience.

3. The case of the petitioners before the Tribunal in brief is that they are parents of the deceased who died in motor vehicle accident that occurred on 13.11.2016 at 11.45 a.m., Atchempeta Center, Thimmapuram Police Station limits. It is the contention of the petitioners that on 13.11.2016 their son and daughter (deceased) went to their maternal grand-parents village, i.e. Vijay