ORAL JUDGMENT

The petitioner/appellant has filed this appeal under Section 173(1) of Motor Vehicles Act , 1988, being aggrieved and dissatisfied with the judgment and award dated 29.08.2019 passed in M.V.C.4323/2017 by the IX Additional Small Causes Judge and ACMM, Court of Small Causes, and Member, MACT-7, Bengaluru. By filing this appeal, the appellant seeks to enhance the compensation so awarded by the tribunal.

The factual matrix:

2. It was the case of the petitioner before the tribunal that, on 15.12.2016 at about 8.30 a.m., when he was moving on his motor cycle bearing registration No.KA- 53-S-7646 from Muthkur towards Varthur, near Muthusandra Lake, the driver of TATA Indica Car bearing registration No.KA-53-A-7981 by driving his Car in a rash and negligent manner, dashed against the petitioner's motor cycle. Because of this impact, petitioner fell down and sustained subtrochanteric fracture righ