HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE LAXMI NARAYANA ALISHETTY M.A.C.M.A.NO.1575 OF 2024

JUDGMENT

Heard learned counsel Ms.Satya Manjula for the appellant-

insurance company and Sri. Ajay Kumar Madisetty, learned counsel for respondent Nos.1 and 2-claim petitioners.

2. The present appeal has been filed by the appellant-Insurance Company aggrieved by the impugned award, dated 29.06.2025 in M.V.O.P.No.281 of 2022 (old MVOP No.875 of 2019) passed by the Chairman, Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal-cum-Principal District Judge at Mulugu (for short, ‘Tribunal’) and thereby, seeking to set aside the impugned order.

3. Appellant herein is the respondent No.3/insurance company, respondent Nos.1 and 2 herein are the claim petitioners 1 and 2, respondent Nos.3 and 4 herein are the respondent Nos.1 and 2, who are the driver and owner of the crime vehicle, respectively before the Tribunal. For convenience, hereinafter, the parties are referred to as they are arrayed before the Tribunal.

4. The brief factual matrix of the present appeal is as under:

4.1. On 26.06.2019 at about 07.45 a.m., while the deceased– Akshara, aged 5 years, was proceeding from her house to main road, Mallampally village of Mulugu District, the res