HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.BHASKAR REDDY M.A.C.M.A.No.746 of 2019

JUDGMENT:

Being not satisfied with the quantum of compensation awarded in the order and decree, dated 27.11.2018 passed in O.P.No.137 of 2011 on the file of the Chairman, Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (Judge, Family Court), Nalgonda (for short “the Tribunal”), the present appeal has been filed by the appellants/claimants.

2. Brief facts of the case are that the appellants, who are the parents of one Challa Venkatesh (hereinafter referred to as “the deceased”) filed O.P.No.137 of 2011 under Sections 166 and 140 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, claiming compensation of Rs.10,00,000/- for the death of the deceased, who died in a motor vehicle accident that took place on 16.10.2010. It is stated that on 16.10.2010 while the deceased was proceeding on his motorcycle from Hyderabad to Suryapet and when he reached the outskirts of Peddakaparthi Village, Chityal Mandal, Nalgonda District, the driver of Tata Indica Car bearing No.AP 09 TVA-1463 drove the same in a rash and negligent manner at high speed and dashed the motorcycle of the deceased from opposite direction. As a result of which, the deceased sustained grievous injurie