JUDGMENT

(Prayer: This Civil Miscellaneous Appeal is filed under Section 173 of Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, against the judgment and decree dated 25.02.2016 made in M.C.O.P.No.502 of 2009, on the file of Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, IV Additional District Judge, Tiruvallur @ Ponneri.)

S. Sounthar, J.

1. Aggrieved by an award passed by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Tiruvallur, Ponneri, granting a compensation of Rs.1,63,38,000/- in favour of the respondents 1 to 5/claimants, the insurer of offending vehicle has come up with this appeal.

2. The husband of first respondent, father of respondents 2 to 4 and brother of 5th respondent viz., Beri Sreenivasalu died in a road accident on 26.05.2007, involving a lorry owned by 7th respondent and insured with appellant herein. According to respondents 1 to 5 on 26.05.2007, the deceased and his family members were proceeding from their native place namely Mampattu Village in Andra Pradesh to Meenambakkam Airport at Chennai. They travelled in a Tata Sumo Van bearing registration No.TN-04E-4318 and when they were nearing Thatchur Junction