JUDGMENT :

Cheekati Manavendranath Roy, J.

Aggrieved by the impugned order dated 23.11.2016 of the Motor Vehicles Accidents Claims Tribunal-cum-I Additional District Judge, Guntur passed in M.V.O.P.No.432 of 2013, whereby the Tribunal has dismissed the claim against the 2nd respondent-Insurance Company, the instant appeal has been preferred by the appellants.

2. Facts germane to dispose of the appeal may briefly be stated as follows:

The appellants are the claimants in M.V.O.P.No.432 of 2013. They are the wife, progeny and mother of late Piridi Apparao. On 11.03.2013, about 7.00 a.m., when Apparao was going on his motorcycle from his house to attend his duty, as a fireman in Fire Station of Pamarru, and when he reached near Anjaneya Swamy Temple of Gudiwada on NH-165, a Van bearing No.AP 37 X 3736 driven by its driver in a rash and negligent manner, dashed the motorcycle, on which, Apparao was going. He sustained injuries in the said accident and succumbed to the said injuries while undergoing treatment in Primary Health Centre, Pamarru.

3. A case in Crime No.50 of 2013 of Pamarru Police Station was registered under Section 304-A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short “I.P.C.”) again