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The Civil Miscellaneous Appeal has been filed under Section 173 of Motor Vehicles Act, challenging the order of the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal cum VI Additional District Court, Madurai made in M.C.O.P.No.1115 of 2005, dated 11.03.2015 .

2.The Appellant/insurer, who was made liable to pay compensation of Rs.9,55,082.51/- with interest at 7.5% per annum to the claimants, the legal heirs of the deceased Saravanakumar, who died in an accident occurred on 01.04.2004, challenged the liability mulcted on it and also the quantum awarded at by the Tribunal.

3.The case of the claimants is that on 01.04.2004 at about

01.00 pm, when the deceased Saravanakumar was travelling in a two wheeler Hero Honda bearing Registration No.TN 67 X 5761 as a pillion rider from Rajapalayam to Sivakasi Main Road and at the place nearby S bend of Rajapalayam, the rider of the two wheeler drove the vehicle in a rash and negligent manner and dashed against the parapet wall of the bridge, that all of them fell down in the 15 feet pit, that the pillion rider Saravanakumar has sustained serious injuries and later succumbed to the injures at the hospital, that the accident was occurred only due to the