JUDGMENT :

VENKATESH NAIK T., J,

Heard learned counsel for the appellants and learned counsel for respondents.

MFA No.1902/2022 is filed by the appellants(wife and daughter of deceased Harish S.N.), MFA No.1461/2021 is filed by the Insurance company and MFA No.1716/2022 is filed by the appellants(parents of deceased Harish S.N.) challenging the judgment and award dated 15.12.2020 passed in MVC No.237/2019 on the file of Senior Civil Judge and MACT, Challakere, whereby, the Tribunal granted compensation of Rs.23,77,000/-.

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2. For the sake of convenience, the parties are referred to as they are referred to in the claim petition before the tribunal.

3. Brief facts of the case of the claimants before the Tribunal is that on 23.12.2018, one Sri. Harish S.N., alongwith claimants Nos.1 and 2 was driving Ashoka Leyland vehicle bearing registration No.KA-16-C-7645 from Chitradurga to Hiriyur, at about 8.00 a.m. and when he came near Anesidri gate, on N.H.4, Hiriyur Taluk, at that time, the driver of lorry bearing registration No.KA-05-AE-5164 which was moving in front of the said Ashoka Leyland vehicle, all of a sudden, took his lorry rashly and negligently towards right side of the road, result