Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 89 · Decided 3 February 2015
Jitendra Khimshankar Trivedi & ORS. v. Kasam Daud Kumbhar & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 89 · [2015] 2 S.C.R. 120
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1415/2015
- Decided
- 3 February 2015
- Bench
- V. GOPALA GOWDA, R. BANUMATHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 142; Motor Vehicles Act Section 166
Headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988: s. 166 - Compensation - Fatal accident due to rash and negligent driving - Deceased aged 22 years, a housewife and doing embroidery and knitting work C - Tribunal assessed the income of the deceased at Rs. 1500 p.m. -After deducting 113rd for personal expenses and of 18, tribunal calculated the loss of dependency at Rs. 2. 16 lacs - Driver/owner of offending 0 vehicle filed appeal - High Court partly allowed the appeal taking the income of the deceased at Rs. 1350 p. m. and deducting 1/3rd for personal expenses, held the claimants entitled to
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