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IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI
A. HARI HARANADHA SARMA
National Insurance Co. Ltd. – Appellant
Versus
M. Mothi Kiran S/o P.M. Babu – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
A. HARI HARANADHA SARMA, J.
I. Introduction:-
1. [i] National Insurance Company Ltd., the 2nd respondent before the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal-cum- VIII Additional District Judge, Chittoor [for short “MACT”], in M.V.O.P.No.47 of 2014, feeling aggrieved by the Award and Decree dated 10.01.2017 passed therein, filed the present appeal.
[ii] The 1st respondent herein is the claimant and the 2nd and 3rd respondents herein are the owner and driver of the vehicle bearing No.AP 03 AA 5224 [for short the ‘offending vehicle’] and the appellant herein is the Insurance Company with which the offending vehicle was insured.
2. For the sake of convenience, parties will be herein after referred to as the claimant and the respondents, with reference to their status before the learned MACT, as and how they are arrayed in the impugned proceedings.
II. Case of the claimant in brief:
3. [i] Claimant suffered accident on 18.01.2012 on Chittoor – Puttur road, near Ramanaidupalle village, G.D. Nellore Mandal, within the limits of G.D.Nellore Police Station.
[ii] By the date of the accident, the claimant was studying II year B.Tech., at ChandraSekharendra Saraswathi Viswa Maha Vidyalaya, Kancheepur
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