JUDGMENT :

V.M. VELUMANI, J.

1. The matter is heard through “Video Conferencing/Hybrid mode.”

2. These Civil Miscellaneous Appeals are filed to set aside the common award dated 01.08.2016 made in M.C.O.P. Nos. 1848, 1846 and 1847 of 2013 on the file of Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal, Special District Court, Salem.

3. All these Civil Miscellaneous Appeals are arising out of the same accident and common award and hence, they are disposed of by this common judgment.

4. The appellant-Transport Corporation is the respondent in M.C.O.P. Nos. 1848, 1846 and 1847 of 2013 on the file of Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal, Special District Court, Salem. The respondents in all the appeals filed the above said claim petitions claiming a sum of Rs. 10,00,000/- each as compensation for the death of Ramesh, Marimuthu and Chicken, S/o Rangaraj, respectively who died in the accident that took place on 16.08.2013.

5. According to the respondents in all the appeals, on 16.08.2013 at about 16.40 hours, while the deceased Marimuthu was riding the motorcycle bearing Registration No. TN-54Y-4065 along with the deceased Ramesh and Chicken, S/o. Rangaraj, as pillion riders on the Malliyakarai-Thammampatty Main Roa