HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.BHASKAR REDDY M.A.C.M.A.No.106 of 2019

JUDGMENT:

Being not satisfied with the quantum of compensation awarded in the judgment and decree dated 14.02.2018 passed in M.V.O.P. No.186 of 2014 by the Chairman, Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal, Adilabad-cum-I Additional District Judge, Adilabad (for short “the Tribunal”),the appellants/claimants preferred the present appeal.

2. Brief facts of the case are that the appellants, who are the wife and children of late Kurma @ Golla Rajamallu (hereinafter referred to as “the deceased”) filed M.V.O.P.No.186 of 2014 before the Tribunal, under Section 163-A of the Motor Vehicles Act, claiming compensation of Rs.5,00,000/- with interest @ 18% per annum for the loss sustained by them due to the untimely death of the deceased in motor vehicle accident.It is stated that the deceased was aged about 55 years and was hale and healthy and was earning Rs.6,000/- by way doing agriculture field work. It is further stated that on 17.05.2013 at about 8.30 a.m., while the deceased was proceeding on the road near Eidgaon X-road of Nirmal Town to go to his house, a motorcycle bearing No.AP-01- AG-2358 being driven in a rash and negligent man