Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 739 · Decided 10 July 2007
New India Assurance Company LTD. v. SMT. Shanti Pathak and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 739 · [2007] 8 S.C.R. 237
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2926/2007
- Decided
- 10 July 2007
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, P.K. BALASUBRAMANYAN, D.K. JAIN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act Section 173
Headnote
B ~-_..._ Motor Vehicles Act, J988-Motor accident-Death-Compensation- Jn one case age of deceased was 25 years-Jn another case age of deceased 52 years-Tribunal awarding compensation-By applying multiplier of 17 in c case of 25 years old deceased-By applying multiplier of J 3 in case of 25 years In case of 25 years old deceased multiplier altered to 5 in view of the advance age of the claimants-In case of 52 years old deceased multiplier altered to 8 ~n ' view of age of deceased-Compensations altered accordingly. ., D In a case of motor accident, where the age of deceased was
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