JUDGMENT:

1. These two appeals are being disposed of by this common judgment since M.A.C.M.A.No.1265 of 2007 filed by the claimant, seeking enhancement of the compensation and M.A.C.M.A.No.3747 of 2008 filed by the R.T.C., are directed against the very same judgment and decree, dated 02.03.2007, passed in O.P.No.871 of 2004 on the file of the XXII Additional Chief Judge-cum-before the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal, City Criminal Court at 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 claiming compensation of Rs.15,00,000/- for the injuries sustained by him in a road accident that occurred on 09.12.2003. It is stated that on the said date, the claimant and his friends Shankerlal, S.Prem Kumar, went to Abids to meet their friend and while they were returning from Abids to Karwan on Hero Honda bearing No.AP 13 E 7368, and were passing Vijayanagar Colony near A1 Saba Hotel