HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.BHASKAR REDDY M.A.C.M.A.No.267 of 2019

JUDGMENT:

This appeal has been filed by the appellant-corporation challenging the judgment and decree dated 24.08.2018 passed by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal-cum-V Addl. District Judge, Medak at Sangareddy (for short “the Tribunal”) in M.V.O.P. No. 355 of 2015, whereby the Tribunal awarded compensation of Rs.11,75,000/- together with proportionate costs and interest @ 7.5% per annum to the claimants (respondents herein) on account of death of the deceased Arrolla Akshaya Kumar in a road accident which occurred on 04.08.2013.

2. The brief facts of the case are that on 04.08.2013 the son of the appellant, one late Arrolla Akshaya Kumar (aged about 19 years)was travelling as a pillion rider on a Motorbike/Yamaha FZ bearing registration No.AP-23-T/R-7334 along with two friends and when they reached near Indian Oil Petrol Pump, Madinaguda, the motorcycle collided with an R.T.C. bus bearing No. A.P.23-Z-0078 as a result of which the deceased sustained grievous head injury and succumbed while being shifted to hospital. A crime was also registered at Miyapur Police Station as Cr.No.445 of 2013 under Sections 304A and 337 IP