THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE D.S.R.VARMA CIVIL MISCELLANEOUS APPEAL No.1447 of 1999 ORAL JUDGMENT: Heard. Appellant is the New India Assurance Company Limited. This Civil Miscellaneous Appeal is directed against the order and decree, dated 23.12.1998, passed by the Additional District Judge-cum-Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Hindupur (for brevity “the Tribunal”), in I.A.No.811 of 1998 in O.P.No.111 of 1998, awarding a sum of Rs.50,000/- for the death of one Munippa, husband of claimant No.1 and father of claimant Nos.2 to 4, in a road accident that occurred on 07.07.1997. The only contention of the Insurance Company is that the amount that can be awarded under no-fault liability is only Rs.25,000/- and not Rs.50,000/-. Without going into the merits, I deem it appropriate not to interfere with the impugned award, passed by the Tribunal, at this length of time, inasmuch as, the accident, in the instant case, occurred on 07.07.1997 i.e., after amendment to Motor Vehicles Act, under amended Act 44 of 1994, and as per clause (2) of Section 140 of the Motor Vehicles Act, the compensation which shall be payable under clause (1) in respect of the death of any person shall be a fixed sum of Rs.50,000/-. For the foregoing, the Civil Miscellaneous Appeal fails and is liable to be dismissed. In the result, the Civil Miscellaneous Appeal is dismissed. However, there shall be no order as to costs. _____________________ JUSTICE D.S.R.VARMA 15th July 2010 dr