Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 251 · Decided 12 March 2024
Haresh Shantilal Avlani & Anr v. The New India Assurance CO. LTD.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 251 · [2024] 3 S.C.R. 1009
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4029/2024
- Decided
- 12 March 2024
- Bench
- HIMA KOHLI, AHSANUDDIN AMANULLAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act
Headnote
Matter pertains to fixing of the age of the deceased for applying a multiplier for the purposes of computing the compensation payable to the claimants. Motor Vehicles Act, 1986 - Compensation - Determination of - Calculation of multiplier, age of the deceased or the age of the dependents: Held: It is the age of the deceased which ought to be taken into consideration and not the age of the dependents for arriving at the multiplier - High Court erred in returning findings to the effect that the age of dependents of the deceased
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