JUDGMENT :

1. These two appeals are being disposed of by this common judgment since M.A.C.M.A.No.2539 of 2014 filed by the National Insurance Company Limited and M.A.C.M.A.No.1134 of 2019 filed by the claimant, seeking enhancement of the compensation, are directed against the very same order and decree, dated 26.06.2013 passed in O.P.No.2256 of 2009 on the file of the I Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge-cum-XV Additional Chief Judge, Hyderabad (for short “the Tribunal”).

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

3. The facts, in issue, are as under:

4. The claimant filed a petition under Sections 166 of the Motor Vehicles Act against the respondents 1 and 2, claiming compensation of Rs.6,00,000/- for the injuries sustained by him in a road accident that occurred on 27.07.2009. It is stated that on the said date, while the petitioner was going to Vijayawada as Cleaner in a Lorry bearing No.AP 24 W 6127 belongs to the 1st respondent and when the said lorry was going at the outskirts of Gundrapalli Village on the national highway No.9 at a culvert turning, the driver of the said lorry drove the same in high speed witho