JUDGMENT :

R. THARANI, J.

Prayer: This Civil Miscellaneous Appeal is filed under Section 173 of Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, to set aside the judgment and decree dated 25.03.2014 passed in M.C.O.P. No. 105 of 2013, on the file of the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (Chief Judicial Magistrate), Nagercoil.

1. This Civil Miscellaneous Appeal has been filed against the judgment and decree passed in M.C.O.P. No. 105 of 2013 dated 25.03.2014 on the file of the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (Chief Judicial Magistrate), Nagercoil.

2. The appellants herein are the petitioners 1, 3 and 4 and the respondents herein are the respondents in the claim petition. The appellant herein has filed a claim petition in M.C.O.P. No. 105 of 2013, claiming compensation for the death of one Suyambulingam, in an accident that took place on 07.08.2012. The Tribunal has awarded a sum of Rs. 8,74,000/- (Rupees Eight Lakhs and Seventy Four Thousand only) as compensation. Against which, the appellant has filed the present appeal.

3. Brief substance of the claim petition in M.C.O.P. No. 105 of 2013 is as follows:

On 07.08.2012, at about 02.30 p.m. the deceased was riding his bicycle along the Kanyakumari-Nagercoil National