IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.BHASKAR REDDY M.A.C.M.A.No.273 of 2019 DATE :28.11.2025 Between:

The United India Insurance Co. Ltd., Represented by its Legal Managaer, Service HUB, 2^nd Floor, Church Building, Tilak Road, Abida, Hyderabad – 500 001 …..Appellant AND K. Shanta Bai and six others ….Respondents HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.BHASKAR REDDY M.A.C.M.A.No.273 of 2019

JUDGMENT:

This appeal, under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, is filed by the appellant–Insurance Company challenging the judgment and decree dated 15.11.2018 passed in M.V.O.P.No.589 of 2015 by the Chairman, Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal-cum-XII Additional Chief Judge, City Civil Court, at Secunderabad (for short “the Tribunal”), whereby the Tribunal awarded a total compensation of Rs.14,30,000/- with interest at 9% per annum from the date of petition till realization, for the death of Raj Kumar Khare (hereinafter referred to as “the deceased”) in a motor vehicle accident.

2. The brief facts of the case are that on 19.01.2015 the deceased, while proceeding on foot near Arts College Bus Stop, Osmania University Campus, was hit by a two-wheeler bearing N