THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SUDDALA CHALAPATHI RAO M.A.C.M.A. No.546 of 2022

JUDGMENT:

This MACMA is filed by the appellants/claimants assailing the Award, dt.06.02.2018, in OP.No.994 of2012 on the file of the Chairman, Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal-cum-Special Sessions Judge, for trial of SCs/STs(POA) Cases-cum-VII Additional District Judge at Nalgonda, for enhancement.

2. Heard Sri Sakinala Ravi Kumar, learned counsel for the appellants, and Sri Kota Subba Rao, learned Standing Counsel appearing for respondent-Insurance Company.

3. For the sake of convenience, the parties will hereinafter be referred to as arrayed before the Tribunal.

4. The brief facts of the case are that, the claimants, who are the wife, children and mother of the deceased Poreddy Venkat Reddy, filed a petition under Section 166 and 140 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, claiming compensation of Rs.28,00,000/- for the death of the deceased in a road accident that took place on 29.01.2012. On the fateful day, after completion of process duty at Gandhi Hospital, Secunderabad, while the deceased was returning to Yadagirigutta Police Station on his pulsar motor cycle bearing No.AP 24 K 1356, when he reached near Kondamad