THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NARSING RAO NANDIKONDA

JUDGMENT:

This M.A.C.M.A. is filed under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 by the appellant/petitioner aggrieved by the Award and decree dated 19.11.2019 passed in M.V.O.P.No.316 of 2016 by the Chairman, Additional Motor Accident Claims Tribunal-Cum-II Additional District Judge, Karimnagar at Jagitial, (for short, ‘the Tribunal’) seeking compensation of Rs.15,00,000/- for the injuries sustained by the petitioner in a motor vehicle accident that took place on 24.01.2016.

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

3. The brief fact of the case is that appellant/claimant filed M.V.O.P.No.316 of 2016 under Section 166(1)(a) of the M.V.Act, 1988 seeking compensation for the injuries received in a motor vehicle accident alleged to have caused due to rash and negligent manner by the tipper bearing No.AP 15 X 0567. It is contended that on 24.01.2016, the petitioner was going to his village Gollapalli on his TVS Champ Moped bearing No.AP 15 BJ 4955, when he reached the bypass road, Jagtial, the offending vehicle i.e., tipper lorry bearing No.AP 15 X 0567 came from