JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Civil Miscellaneous Appeal filed under Section 173 of Motor Vehicles Act, to set aside the judgment and award passed in M.C.O.P.No. 22 of 2004 on the file of the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (Sub Judge), Padmanabhapuram dated 25.01.2010.)

1. This Civil Miscellaneous Appeal has been filed by the appellant/petitioner, challenging the compensation awarded on certain counts by the learned Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (Sub Judge), at Padmanabhapuram in M.C.O.P.No.22 of 2004 dated 25.01.2010.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties are addressed herein as per the rank in M.C.O.P.No.22 of 2004.

3. The brief facts leading to the filing of the Civil Miscellaneous Appeal is as follows:-

This is a case of injury and the petitioner is a motor mechanic aged 19 years. On 25.09.2002 at about 17.00 hours, the second respondent driver of the Bajaj light goods three wheeler vehicle bearing registration No.KL-01-C-8271 dashed against the petitioner, who was walking in the footpath in the extreme left side of the road. As the result of the accident