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.807 of 2019 DATE:10.02.2026 Between:

The United India Insurance Co. Ltd., Rep. by its Divisional Manager, D.O.IV, Posnette Bhavan, Ramkote, Hyderabad.

…..Appellant AND Sri V. Lakshmaiah and two others ….Respondents

JUDGMENT

The appellant-insurance company has filed this appeal, under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 against the judgment and decree dated 17.10.2007 passed in O.P. No.2614 of 2005 by the Chairman, Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal-cum-X Additional Chief Judge, Fast Track Court, City Civil Court, Hyderabad (hereinafter referred to as “the Tribunal”), whereby compensation of Rs.5,00,000/- with interest was awarded jointly and severally against the owner and insurer of the offending bus, in favour of the parents of the deceased, V. Mallesh, who died in a motor vehicle accident.

2. The brief facts of the case are that on 04.06.2005, the deceased left Hyderabad for Aurangabad by a bus bearing registration No.AP- 9X-3339 at about 4.30 p.m and on the morning of 05.06.2005, while the bus was proceeding on Nanded–Aurangabad Road, the driver of the bus drove it