JUDGMENT :

(K. Sreenivasa Reddy, J.) :

Challenge in this M.A.C.M.A. is to the Award, dated 07.06.2013, in M.V.O.P.No.11 of 2006, on the file of the Chairman, Motor Accident Claims Tribunal-cum-Principal District Judge, Krishna at Machilipatnam (for brevity ‘the Tribunal’), whereunder the Tribunal, allowed the claim for compensation made by respondent No.1 herein/claimant for a sum of Rs.3,00,000/-, on account of sustaining grievous injuries in a motor vehicle accident occurred on 07.12.2003 at 10.30 AM.

2. The parties to this M.A.C.M.A. will hereinafter be referred to, as described before the Tribunal, for the sake of convenience.

3. The case of the claimant before the Tribunal, in brief, according to the averments set out in the Motor Vehicle accident claim, is that on 07.12.2003 the claimant and his brother viz. Jannu Srinivasa Rao intended to go to their house situated at Pochigani Lanka village from wharf and when they reached near 60 KM stone, one auto bearing registration No.AP 07X 8913 (hereinafter referred to, as ‘the offending vehicle’) driven by respondent No.1 in a rash and negligent manner without blowing horn, came in opposite direction and dashed the claimant; as a res