JUDGMENT :

1. Challenging the judgment and decree, dated 27.07.2007, passed in O.P.No.505 of 2006 on the file of the Chairman, Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal-cum-V-Additional District Judge (FTC), Ranga Reddy District at L.B.Nagar (for short “the Tribunal”), the New India Assurance Company Limited filed the present appeal. The 2nd respondent/2nd claimant also filed Cross-Objections being aggrieved by the quantum of compensation granted by the Tribunal on the ground that it is grossly inadequate.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties will hereinafter be referred to as arrayed before the Tribunal.

3. The claimants, who are the wife and married daughter of one U.Bixapathi (hereinafter referred to as “the deceased”), filed a petition under Section 166 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, claiming compensation of Rs.5,00,000/- for the death of deceased in a road accident that took place on 05.03.2006. It is stated that, on 05.03.2006, at about 1.30 P.M., the deceased was proceeded on his Luna bearing No. AP 15 C 655 towards Medchal from Srirampuram Village and reached Bharat Petrol Pump at Yellampet Village on National High Way No.7 in Medchal Mandal, and after filling fuel in the Luna