JUDGMENT :

R.SAKTHIVEL, J.

Feeling aggrieved by the Award dated November 23, 2018 passed in MCOP No.423 of 2017 by the ‘Motor Accident Claims Tribunal/III Additional District Judge, Vellore at Tirupattur’ [‘Tribunal’ for short], the petitioners therein have preferred this Civil Miscellaneous Appeal praying for enhancement of the compensation awarded by the Tribunal.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties will hereinafter be referred to as per their rank in the Motor Accident Claims Original Petition.

Petitioners' case

3. The first petitioner is the wife, the second and third petitioners are the daughters, and the fourth and fifth petitioners are the parents of the deceased - Kumaresan. At the time of the accident, the deceased - Kumaresan was 42 years old, employed as a Tamil Nadu Grade-I Police Constable, and earning a sum of Rs.32,000/- as monthly income.

3.1. On June 25, 2017, at about 06.20 a.m., in front of Rajeswari Marriage Hall at Jolarpet Junction, on the Tirupattur- Vaniyambadi Main Road, an auto bearing Registration No.TN-23- BX-5853, owned by the 1^st respondent, was being driven in a rash and negligent manner by its driver (who is first respondent’s son) towards Vaniyamb