JUDGMENT :

This MACMA is filed under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 by the appellants/petitioners aggrieved by the order and decree dated 28.09.2011 passed in M.V.O.P.No.1202 of 2006 by the Chairman, Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal-cum-II Additional District Judge, Ranga Reddy District (for short, “the Tribunal”).

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

3. Brief facts of the case are that the petitioners filed a claim petition claiming compensation of Rs.15,00,000/- on account of the death of E. Sathaiah (hereinafter referred to as “the deceased”) in a motor vehicle accident.

3(1) It is stated that on 10.05.2006, the first petitioner and her husband/deceased visited Raghunatha Puram and from there Gourapally village for attending function and while coming so in the Auto bearing No.AP-28W-1823 of respondents No.1 and 2, the driver of the said auto drove it in a rash and negligent manner and got turtle in the outskirts of Kurram village at about 7.15 p.m. The deceased sustained injuries to his head and abdomen, as there was a known person to the deceased by name J. Harinath Reddy of Gouapally, the deceased was