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IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA, AT DHARWAD
GEETHA K.B.
managing director – Appellant
Versus
Mahadevappa S.K., S/o. Shiddabasappa Karamaller – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
GEETHA K. B., J.
1. These are the appeals filed by the appellant under Section 173 (1) of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (for short, ‘M.V.Act’), challenging the judgment and award passed in MVC Nos.202/2015 and 203/2015, dated 21.07.2016, on the file of Principal Senior Civil Judge and AMACT, Ranebennur (for short, ‘Tribunal’).
2. Parties would be referred with their ranks as they were before the Tribunal, for the sake of convenience and clarity.
3. The common case of claimants in short before the Tribunal is that, when both claimants were standing with motorcycle of claimant in MVC No.202/2015, on the side of Rattihalli-Ranebennur road, on 03.09.2014 at 11.30 a.m., a KSRTC bus bearing registration No.KA-27/F-152, came from Rattihalli side towards Ranebennur and collided with goods auto rickshaw bearing registration No.KA-27/A- 6251, which in turn collided to the motorcycle and because of it, both claimants have sustained injuries in the accident. The claimants claimed that, they have sustained the following injuries.
Injuries sustained by the claimant in MFA No.102985/2016 (MVC No.202/2015)
i) Fracture of condyle of right tibia;
ii) Fracture of surgical of right shoulder;
iii) F
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