JUDGMENT :

This appeal is preferred by the Appellant/Insurance Company, challenging the award dated 23.08.2010 passed in M.V.O.P.No.523/2008 on the file of Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal-cum-Judge, Family Court, Ongole, (for short ‘the Tribunal’), wherein the Tribunal while allowing the petition, awarded a compensation of Rs.6,00,000/-with interest @ 9% p.a. from the date of petition, till the date of realisation to the petitioners/claimants, for the death of Yerramudi Thirupathaiah 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.163 of Motor Vehicles Act 1988, claiming compensation of Rs.6,00,000/-on account of the death of Yerramudi Thirupathaiah, who is son of the petitioners, in a motor vehicle accident that occurred on 07.11.2008.

4. The facts show that on 07.11.2008 at about 06.30 p.m., the deceased Yerramudi Thirupathaiah, Kakunuri Audinarayana, and others, who wore Mala of Swamy Ayyappa, had taken bath near a public tap near Rajeev Colony, and after they are coming to the village, at that time auto bearing No.AP 27X 6757 driven