JUDGMENT :

Heard the arguments of Smt. S.A.V.Ratnam, learned counsel for the appellant/Insurance Company through virtual mode. Also heard Sri Bora Naganjaneyulu, learned counsel representing Sri K.Rama Koteswara Rao, learned counsel for the respondent Nos.1 to 3/claimants.

2. This appeal directed by the appellant/respondent No.2/Insurance Company challenging the Order and Decree dated 12.04.2012 passed in M.V.O.P.No.397 of 2008 by the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal-cum-IV Additional District Judge, Tirupati (hereinafter referred to ‘Tribunal’).

3. Parties are referred to as they were arrayed in the proceedings before the learned Tribunal, for the sake of convenience.

4. The claimants filed petition under Section 166 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (for brevity ‘the Act’) claiming compensation of Rs.6,00,000/- for the death of one M.Bhaskar (hereinafter referred to ‘deceased’) in a motor accident occurred on 01.11.2004 involving the jeep bearing registration No.AP04 U 4138.

5. The case of the claimants is that on 01.11.2004 the deceased was driving a jeep bearing registration No.AP07 W 3395 and when the jeep reached a place near R.S.Garments Factory near Mangalam; the deceased stopped t