Supreme Court · 1977 INSC 49 · Decided 9 February 1977
Manjusri Raha & Ors Etc v. B. L. Gupta & ORS. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1977 INSC 49 · [1977] 2 S.C.R. 944
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2310/1968
- Decided
- 9 February 1977
- Bench
- V.R. KRISHNA IYER, S. MURTAZA FAZAL ALI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution; Motor Vehicles Act Section 95(2)(d)
Headnote
Motor Vehicles Act 1939-Sec. 95(2)(d)--Sec. l IOA:..__Principles to deter­ mine compensation payable for death in a bus accident-Increments and pen­ sionary benefits, whether to be taken into account. Satindra Nath Raha and Uma Shankar Shastri were travelling by a bus owned by Gupta of M. from Bhind to Gwalior. On the' high way, a bus owned by Bhuta came from the opposite direction. On account of negligence of drivers of both the buses. there was a head-on collision of the two buses, as a consequence of which Raha and Shastri sustained fatal injuries to which they
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