THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.BHASKAR REDDY M.A.C.M.A.No.359 of 2019

JUDGMENT:

This appeal is filed by the appellants/claimants seeking enhancement of compensation awarded in O.P.No.446 of 2017, dated 18.01.2019 by the learned Chairman, Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal–cum–Principal District Judge, at Mahabubnagar (for short “the Tribunal”), whereby the Tribunal awarded a total compensation of Rs.5,80,000/– as against the claim of Rs.10,00,000/– for the death of Smt. Meedigeri Jayamma in a motor vehicle accident.

2. For the sake of convenience, hereinafter, the parties will be referred to as they were arrayed before the Tribunal.

3. The case of the claimants is that on 06.08.2017, the deceased went to Makthal to purchase household articles and was returning to her village Jaklair in an auto bearing No. AP 22 X 6846. When the said auto reached the outskirts of Kachavar village, a lorry bearing No. AP 21 X 9614, driven by its owner–cum– driver (respondent No.1) in a rash and negligent manner, came at high speed and dashed the auto. The deceased sustained grievous injuries and succumbed to death while undergoing treatment at Gandhi Hospital, Hyderabad. The police registered a case agains