THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NARSING RAO NANDIKONDA M.A.C.M.A.No.124 of 2020 & X-OBJ.No.11 of 2020

COMMON JUDGMENT:

This M.A.C.M.A.No.124 of 2020 is filed by the Road Transport Corporation and Cross Objections are filed by the claimants against the Award and decree, dated 21.08.2018 passed in M.V.O.P.No.230 of 2017 by the Chairman, Motor Accident Claims Tribunal-cum-the Court of the Chief Judge, City Civil Court, Hyderabad (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 claimants, who are the parents of one Chiragani Satheesh (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 27.12.2016. It is stated that on 27.12.2016, while the deceased was proceeding on his motorcycle bearing No.TS 08 EM 1078 from Dilsukhnagar to L.B.Nagar and when he reached opposite to D.Mart at L.B.Nagar, the driver of RTC bus bearing No.AP 37 Z 0097 drove it in a rash and negligent manner and dashed the