JUDGMENT :

Heard Sri A.K.Kishore Reddy, leaned counsel for the appellant/claimant and Sri Vinod Kumar Tarlada, learned Standing Counsel for the APSRTC/Respondent No.2

2. This appeal directed by the appellant/claimant challenging the Order and Decree dated 17.08.2012 passed in M.V.O.P.No.376 of 2008 on the file of Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal-cum-IV Additional District Judge, East Godavari District at Kakinada (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 petition was filed under Section 166 of the Andhra Pradesh Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (for brevity ‘the Act’) claiming compensation of Rs.12,00,000/- for the injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident occurred on 21.10.2007.

5. The case of the claimant is that he is working as a driver in APSRTC; on 21.10.2007 at about 8.40 PM while he was driving RTC bus bearing registration No.AP11 Z 2570 coming from Rajahmundry towards Kakinada; he reached the place of accident i.e., Uppara colony of Dowleswaram; another RTC bus bearing registration No.AP28 Z 1766 (hereinafter referred to as ‘offending vehicle’) came in opp