IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE VAKITI RAMAKRISHNA REDDY Date: 16.02.2026 Between:

The Managing Director, APSRTC, Musheerabad, Hyderabad and another. … Appellants AND Thota Santosh and two others … Respondents

JUDGMENT:

Aggrieved by the Order and Decree dated 22.12.2015 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘impugned order’) passed by the learned Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal – cum – I Additional District Judge, Nizamabad (hereinafter referred to as “the Tribunal”) in M.V.O.P.No.483 of 2011, the appellants, who were arrayed as the respondent Nos.1 and 2 before the learned Tribunal, have preferred the present Appeal seeking to set aside the impugned order.

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

I. BRIEF FACTS

3. The brief facts of the case as borne out from the record, are that the petitioner/claimant (respondent No.1 herein) filed a claim petition under Section 166 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (for short “the M.V.Act”), seeking compensation of Rs.8,00,000/- from the respondent Nos.1 to 4 for the injuries sustained by him in a road accident that occurred on 20