JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Appeal filed under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 seeking enhancement of compensation in the judgment and decree dated 27.04.2018 made in M.C.O.P.No.269 of 2014 on the file of the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal/Sub Court at Sathyamangalam, Erode District.)

1. This present Civil Miscellaneous Appeal is at the instance of the claimants, aggrieved by the award passed by the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal/Sub Court, Sathyamangalam in M.C.O.P.No.269 of 2014 in and by judgment and decree dated 27.04.2018, awarding a sum of Rs.7,82,400/- together with interest at 7% per annum.

2. The brief facts set out in the claim petition are as hereunder:

The appellants before this Court as appellants, wife and father of the deceased, one, Velusamy, S/o Mahali who died in a road accident on 04.06.2014 sought for compensation of Rs.20,00,000/-. The case of the claimants before the Tribunal was that late Velusamy was running a provision stores and was earning not less than Rs.20,000/- per month and that the 1st respondent/State Transport Corporation bus driven in a rash and negligent manner and that too at high speed and without using horn hit the deceased motor