THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. HARI HARANADHA SARMA

M.A.C.M.A.No.1510 of 2017

JUDGMENT:

I. Introduction:-

1. [i] National Insurance Company Ltd., the 2^nd respondent before the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal-cum- VIII Additional District Judge, Chittoor [for short “MACT”], in M.V.O.P.No.47 of 2014, feeling aggrieved by the Award and Decree dated 10.01.2017 passed therein, filed the present

appeal.

[ii] The 1^st respondent herein is the claimant and the 2^nd and 3^rd

respondents herein are the owner and driver of the vehicle bearing No.AP 03 AA 5224 [for short the ‘offending vehicle’] and the appellant herein is the

Insurance Company with which the offending vehicle was insured.

2. For the sake of convenience, parties will be herein after referred to as the claimant and the respondents, with reference to their status before the

learned MACT, as and how they are arrayed in the impugned proceedings.

II. Case of the claimant in brief:

3. [i] Claimant suffered accident on 18.01.2012 on Chittoor – Puttur road, near Ramanaidupalle village, G.D. Nellore Mandal, within the limits of

G.D.Nellore Police Station.

[ii] By the date of the accident, the claimant was studying II year

B.Tech., at ChandraSekharendra Saras