JUDGMENT :

G. JAYACHANDRAN, J.

Prayer: Civil Miscellaneous Appeal is filed under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, praying against the judgment and decree dated 29.06.2011 made in M.C.O.P. No. 1521 of 2009 on the file of the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Additional District Judge and Special Judge for EC Act cases, Salem.

1. The appellants are mother and the brothers of the deceased Kumar. Not satisfied with the quantum of award granted by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Salem, for the death of Kumar in the road accident, Appeal is preferred by them seeking enhancement of compensation.

2. On 27.07.2009, at 2.30 p.m. when Kumar was travelling as a pillion rider in the motorcycle driven by his friend, the bus bearing Registration No. TN-30-N-0153 owned by the respondent Transport Corporation hit the motorcycle from the opposite direction and caused fatal injury to the pillion rider Kumar, near Srinivasa Nagar bus stop on the Omulr to Chettichavadi road. The negligent was attributed to the driver of the Transport bus. A case was registered against the bus driver in Cr