JUDGMENT :

These two appeals are being disposed of by this common judgment since M.A.C.M.A.No.1260 of 2006 filed by the claimant seeking enhancement of compensation and M.A.C.M.A.No.1626 of 2006 filed by the New India Insurance Company Limited, are directed against the very same judgment and decree, dated 30.01.2006, passed in O.P.No.1504 of 2001 on the file of the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal (District Judge), Nizamabad.

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

3. The brief facts of the case are that on 29.03.2001 at about 5.30 P.M., the claimant, one Dr.Ashok Reddy and the driver of the Fiat Car bearing No.DL-2/CE-4245 were traveling in the said Car from Hyderabad to Nizamabad and when they reached Ramayampet Village, the driver of the Car drove it in a rash and negligent manner with high speed and hit a tamarind tree situated adjacent to the road, due to which, the claimant and other inmates of the Car sustained injuries. The claimant sustained compound fracture to right leg and six ribs were fractured and al