THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NARSING RAO NANDIKONDA

COMMON JUDGMENT:

M.A.C.M.A.No.410 of 2020 is filed by the New India Assurance

Company Limited and Cross Objection No.40 of 2021 is filed by the Claimants being aggrieved and unsatisfied against the Award and decree passed by the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal-Cum- Principal District Judge, Mahabubnagar, (hereinafter referred to ‘learned Tribunal’) in

M.V.O.P.No.87 of 2017, dated 04.10.2019.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties will be hereinafter referred

to as they are arrayed before the learned Tribunal.

3. Heard Sri K.Venkatesh Gupta, learned counsel for the Claimants and Sri Kota Sameer Kumar, learned counsel for respondent Insurance Company and Sri Repakula Nageswar Rao for Respondent

No. 2. Perused the entire material on record.

4. The brief facts of the case are that the claimants filed claim petition under section 166 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (in short referred to as the M.V.Act) seeking compensation of Rs. 15,00,000/- for the death of the husband of claimant No.1 and father of claimants No. 2 and 3 for the

death caused in the accident. On 13.07.2012, the deceased who was working as tipper driver on tipper bearing regist