C.T. Ravi Kumar, J.

1. These appeals arise from the award dated 16.2.2011 passed by the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal, Perumbavoor in O.P.(M.V) No. 1925 of 2005. The said claim petition was filed by the legal heirs of one Sibi. M.G. who met with a motor vehicle accident on 6.4.2005 and succumbed to the injuries sustained, on 7.4.2005. They are respectively the mother and sisters of the deceased. They claimed Rs.7,00,000/- as compensation for the death of Sibi and as per the impugned award in these appeals the Tribunal awarded an amount of Rs.2,56,500/- with interest at the rate of 8% per annum from the date of the petition till realisation. The former appeal has been preferred by the petitioners therein seeking enhancement of the compensation and the latter appeal has been preferred by the owner of the offending vehicle against the exoneration of the insurance company from the liability to indemnify him and seeking to set aside the impugned award to the extent it saddled him with the liability to pay the compensation to the appellants in the former appeal. In this judgment, for the sake of convenience, the parties are referred to hereinafter in accordance with their status