IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SUDDALA CHALAPATHI RAO DATE: 12.12.2025 Between:

Mandla Devamma @ Laxmi Devamma w/o. M.Krishnaiah …. Appellant/claimant And The Regional Manager, TSRTC (previously AP State Road Transport Corporation Ltd.,), rep.by its Regional Manager and another.

…. Respondents/respondents

JUDGMENT

This Appeal is directed against the order and decree dated

25.09.2020 in M.V.O.P.No.127 of 2018, passed by the Judge, Family Court-cum-VIII Additional District Judge at Mahabubnagar (for short, ‘the Tribunal’), wherein the claim of the appellant is allowed-in-part, awarding compensation of ₹ 1,56,304/- with interest at 9% per annum from the date of filing of the petition till realization with proportionate costs.

2. The brief factual matrix of the present appeal is that on 13.02.2018 at 12.30 p.m., the appellant/claim petitioner was a pillion rider of Hero Honda Bike bearing registration No.TS-06- EK-8391, driven by her son, her relatives were traveling on another bike, who were proceeding from their village to Kollapur, and when they all reached Mylaram rivulet on PWD Road, and their companion biker stopped the bike to relieve h