THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NARSING RAO NANDIKONDA M.A.C.M.A.No.678 of 2020

JUDGMENT:

This appeal is filed by the appellants/petitioners under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (for short “the MV Act”) against the judgment and decree, dated 05.12.2018 passed in M.V.O.P.No.156 of 2018 on the file of the Chairman (M.A.C.T.) II Additional District Judge (FTC), Mancherial (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Tribunal’).

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties will be hereinafter referred to as they are arrayed before the learned Tribunal.

3. The brief facts of the case are that the petitioners, who are the mother and sister of one Duta Arun Kumar (hereinafter referred to as “the deceased”), have filed a claim-petition for grant of compensation of Rs.10,00,000/- for the death of the deceased, who died in a motor vehicle accident that occurred on 22.12.2016. It is stated that on 22.12.2016 at about 9:30 a.m. while the deceased was proceeding on the motorcycle of his friend by name Gaddala Prashanth as pillion rider from Mittapalli to Rasoolpalli and when they reached Rasoolpalli bus stop, a lorry bearing No.AP 20 TB 2526 driven by its driver in a rash and negligent manner at high spe