JUDGMENT:

This Civil Miscellaneous Appeal is preferred against the order dated 15.11.2006 in M.V.O.P.No.40 of 2002 passed by the Chairman, Motor Accident Claims Tribunal- cum-I Additional District Judge, at Chittoor, granting a compensation of Rs.1,56,000/- with proportionate costs and interest at 7.5% p.a. from the date of petition till realisation.

The appellant herein is the 2nd petitioner and respondents herein are the respondents 1 and 2 and the 3rd petitioner in the O.P. For the sake of convenience, the parties will be referred as they are arrayed before the Tribunal.

The case of the claimants is that they filed the O.P.

claiming compensation of Rs.3,00,000/- on account of death of one Poornasekhar in the accident occurred on 01.10.2001. One Poornasekhar, aged about 19 years, was

2 VGKR, J working as cleaner under the 1st respondent. On the fateful day, in the midnight at 12.00 ‘O’ clock, Poornasekhar was going in the lorry bearing No.AP-16-T-3800 from Chennai to Guntur and after unloading the milk at Chennai, the lorry-milk tanker was returning and when it reached in between 243-242/8 K.M. stone, the driver of the milk tanker had driven the lorry in a rash and negligent manner an