HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA

JUDGMENT:

This appeal is filed by the claimants aggrieved by the order and Decree dated 08.01.2020 in M.V.O.P.No.2607 of 2018 passed by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal-cum-The Court of the Chief Judge, City Civil Court, at Hyderabad (for short “the Tribunal”).

2. For convenience and clarity, the parties herein are referred to as they were arrayed before the Tribunal.

3. The case of the claim petitioners before the Tribunal is that on 29.10.2018 while the deceased Shaik Khaja Anees Ahmed was proceeding from Bainsha to Nirmal in an RTC bus bearing No.AP- 01Z-0041 as passenger and when the said bus reached the bus- stop of Eadgoan Chowk, Nirmal, the driver of the bus stopped the bus, but he immediately drove the vehicle at a high speed and in a rash and negligent manner without observing the deceased, who was trying to get down the bus, due to which, the deceased fell down and received severe head injury and other injuries all over the body. Immediately after the accident, the deceased was shifted to Government Hospital, Nirmal and from there to Nizamabad and then to Gandhi Hospital for better treatment but he died on 01.11.2018 while undergo