JUDGMENT :

Since common issues arise in both the Appeals, they are being disposed of by this common judgment.

2. MACMA.No.30 of 2011 is filed by claimants/petitioners and MACMA.No.627 of 2011 is filed by 2nd and 3rd respondents/APSRTC against the decree and award dt.08.10.2010 passed in MVOP.No.657 of 2008 on the file of the Principal District Judge, Ranga Reddy District, L.B. Nagar, at Hyderabad.

3. For the sake of convenience, the parties herein are referred to as per their array before the Tribunal.

4. The petitioners/claimants herein filed the above MVOP under Section 166 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (for short, ‘the Act’) claiming compensation of Rs.20 lakhs for the death of Sri Varkala Yadagiri in a motor accident dt.30.01.2008.

5. The petitioners/claimants are the parents and the elder brother of Sri Yadagiri/deceased.

6. The case of petitioners/claimants in brief is that on 30.01.2008 when the deceased was proceeding on his cycle towards NTR Nagar, Saroornagar, Raithu Bazar, a bus bearing Registration No.AP-10-Z-4690 of the APSRTC driven by its driver in a rash and neglige