MACMA/256/2024 of KARNATAKA STATE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION (KSRTC) Vs MANNETI CHENNAMMA

APHC010001282024 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3311] (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE TWENTY FOURTH DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE MS JUSTICE B S BHANUMATHI MOTOR ACCIDENT CIVIL MISCELLANEOUS APPEAL NO: 256/2024 Between: Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (ksrtc) ...APPELLANT AND Manneti Chennamma and Others ...RESPONDENT(S) Counsel for the Appellant: 1. SIVAPRASAD REDDY VENATI Counsel for the Respondent(S): 1. KAMINI VENKATESWARLU The Court made the following: 2 BSB, J M.A.C.M.A.No.256 of 2024 JUDGMENT: This appeal is preferred against the judgment and decree dated 06.02.2023, in M.V.O.P.No.117 of 2019 on the file of the Chairman, Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal-cum-I Additional District Judge, Kadapa, by which the Tribunal awarded compensation of Rs.13,70,000/- with proportionate costs and interest at the rate of 6% per annum, to the claimants on account of the death of the deceased, Manneti Pedda Subba Reddy, in an accident occurred on 10.01.2019. The Tribunal directed the respondents 1 and 2 to pay the compensation awarded jointly and severally. 2. Being aggrieved by the award, the appellant/1st responde