MACMA/118/2019 of C NOOKARATNAM Vs M GAYATRI

APHC010061122019 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3333] (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE TWENTY EIGHTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SMT JUSTICE V.SUJATHA MOTOR ACCIDENT CIVIL MISCELLANEOUS APPEAL NO: 118/2019 Between: C Nookaratnam and Others ...APPELLANT(S) AND M Gayatri and Others ...RESPONDENT(S) Counsel for the Appellant(S): 1. SRINIVASA RAO KURAPATI Counsel for the Respondent(S): 1. RAMA MOHAN RAO KOTHA 2. AMANCHARLA SATISH BABU 3. 2 The Court made the following Judgment: This appeal under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act 1988, (in short ‘M.V.Act’), has been filed by the claimants/appellants, seeking enhancement of the Award, dated 10.12.2018, passed in M.V.O.P.No.1352 of 2011 on the file of the Motor Vehicle Accidents Claims Tribunal-cum-XIII Additional District Judge, Gajuwaka (in short ‘the Tribunal’). 2. The brief facts of the case are as follows: On 29.04.2010, at about 09:00 hours, Sri Chintakayala Siva Kumar @ Siva (deceased) boarded the bus bearing No.AP31 Y 1413 at Narsipatnam Town as a driver and after reaching Visakhapatnam, he returned to Narsipatnam again in the same bus on the very same day. Whe