JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: Civil Miscellaneous Appeal filed under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, to set aside the fair and decreetal order passed by the learned Special Subordinate Judge for MCOP Cases, Madurai in M.C.O.P.No.1186 of 2014, dated 25.02.2016 as against the appellant and allow the appeal.)

1. The Civil Miscellaneous Appeal has been filed under Section 173 of Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, challenging the award, dated 25.02.2016, made in M.C.O.P.No.1186 of 2014, on the file of the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal/Special Subordinate Judge for MCOP Cases, Madurai.

2. The Appellant/Insurer, who was made liable to pay compensation at Rs.1,66,760/- with interest at 7.5% per annum to the claimant, for the injury suffered by him, consequent to an accident occurred on 21.05.2014, challenged the liability mulcted on it.

3. The case of the claimant is that on 21.05.2014 at about 11.00 am, when he was traveling in a two wheeler bearing registration No. TN 20 AZ 7167 on Madurai to Trichy four way road, near Kunnankudipatti junction, he met with an accident with the car bearing registration No.TN 45 BY 0349 owned by the second respondent/first respondent, that the claimant had sustaine