IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.BHASKAR REDDY M.A.C.M.A. No.3323of 2019 DATE: 22.01.2026 Between:

Smt.Khursheed Begum and four others …..Appellants AND The TSRTC represented by its Managing Director and another.

….Respondents

JUDGMENT

Thisappeal is filed by the appellants-claimants under Section

173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, challenging the judgment and decree dated 31.05.2019 passed in M.V.O.P. No. 2239 of 2015 by the learned Motor Accident Claims Tribunal-cum-Chief Judge, City Civil Court, Hyderabad (for short “the Tribunal”), wherein the Tribunal granted compensation of Rs.3,93,500/- together with interest at 9% per annum from the date of petition until the date of realization, payable by respondent Nos. 1 and 2 jointly and severally for the death of Mohammed Sanaullah (hereinafter referred as “the deceased”).

2. The case of the appellants, in brief, is that on 05.05.2015, the deceased, accompanied by the 5^thappellant, was traveling on an MMTS train from Yakutpura toward Secunderabad. When the train halted at Allugadda Bavi Railway Bridge for a signal, the deceased and other passengers alighted. While they were attempting t