HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.BHASKAR REDDY M.A.C.M.A.No.246 of 2019

JUDGMENT:

Being not satisfied with the quantum of compensation awarded in the order and decree, dated 27.12.2018 passed in O.P.No.209 of 2017 on the file of the Chairman, Motor Accident Claims Tribunal –cum-Principal District Judge, Mahabubnagar (for short “the Tribunal”), the present appeal has been filed by the appellants/claimants.

2. Brief facts of the case are that the appellants, who are the parents of one late Master M.Aravaind (hereinafter referred to as “the deceased”) filed O.P.No.209 of 2017 under Section 166 (1) (c) of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, claiming compensation of Rs.4,00,000/- for the death of the deceased, who died in a motor vehicle accident that took place on 11.12.2016. It is stated that on that day, the deceased was riding on a tractor bearing registration No. AP-28 DQ 2131, driven by Respondent No.1, to the agricultural fields of his grandfather Linganna in Mitta Nandimalla Village of Narva Mandal for the purpose of ploughing the land and while the tractor was passing through the agricultural land of one Basi Reddy nearby the land of Linganna, respondent No.1 drove the tractor in a rash and neg