JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Civil Miscellaneous Appeal filed under Section 173 of Motor Vehicles Act, to modify the award passed in M.C.O.P.No.738 of 2009 on the file of the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (District and Sessions Judge), Communal Clash Cases Court, Madurai dated 22.02.2016.)

1. This Civil Miscellaneous Appeal is directed as against the judgment and award passed by the learned Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (District and Sessions Judge), Communal Clash Cases Court, at Madurai in M.C.O.P.No.738 of 2009 dated 22.02.2016 by the appellant/petitioner/claimant seeking enhancement of the compensation.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties are addressed herein as per the rank in M.C.O.P.No.738 of 2009.

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

(i) A gruesome accident took place on Theni-Madurai Highways Road, at Poochipatty, Vadikaruppu Kovil on 02.03.2008 at about 13.45 horus. The petitioner was travelling in a Maruti Alto car bearing registration No.TN-59-AZ-3420 with his family members from west to east direction, w