Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 271 · Decided 5 July 2012
New India Assurance CO. LTD. v. Gopali & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 271 · [2012] 6 S.C.R. 834
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5179/2012
- Decided
- 5 July 2012
- Bench
- G.S. SINGHVI, S. J. MUKHOPADHAYA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 142; Motor Vehicles Act Section 166
Headnote
MOTOR VEHICLES ACT, 1988: s. 166 - Motor accident - Death of victim - Claim for compensation - Computation of income of deceased - Consideration of increase in income - Held: High Court was justified in determining the amount of compensation by o granting 100% increase in the income of the course, the deceased would have served for 22 years and during that period his salary would have certainly doubled because the employer was paying 20% of his salary as bonus per year - Insurer's challenge to the impugned order E is meritless. Motor accident - Death of victim - Compensation -
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