HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.BHASKAR REDDY M.A.C.M.A.No.504 of 2019

JUDGMENT:

This appeal, under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, is filed by the appellant-Insurance Company, challenging the order and decree dated 19.11.2018 passed in M.V.O.P.No.513 of 2016 by the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal-cum- I Additional Chief Judge, City Civil Court, Secunderabad (hereinafter referred to as “the Tribunal”), whereby the Tribunal awarded compensation of Rs.10,22,000/-together with interest at 7.5% per annum to the respondent Nos.1 and2 herein/claimants for the death of one Tadicherla Venkatesh (hereinafter referred to as “the deceased”) in a motor vehicle accident.

2. The brief facts of the case are that on 30.12.2016 at about 06.00 P.M., while the deceased and one Aravind were proceeding from Molangur X Roads towards Keshavapatnam on a motor cycle bearing No.AP-15-AR-9261 and when they reached the outskirts of Molangur near Laxmiprasanna Function Hall, respondent No.3 herein drove van bearing No.KA-14-N-3810 at high speed and in a rash and negligent manner and dashed the motorcycle from wrong side. As a result, the deceased, who was pillion rider, sustained grievous injuries all over