Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 24 · Decided 13 January 2009
Oriental Insurance CO. LTD. v. Ram Prasad Varma & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 24 · [2009] 1 S.C.R. 209
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 106/2009
- Decided
- 13 January 2009
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, CYRIAC JOSEPH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act Section 166, 163A
Headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 - ss.166 and 163A: A B Claimant, employee in public sector undertaking, c suffering permanent disability due to accident - Both his legs amputated - Claimant 55 years of age at that time and earning gross income of Rs.2.3 lacs - Determination of cofT)pensation by applying in the Second Schedule - Appropriate multiplier- Held: Though D Second Schedule, as such, might not have been applicable as maximum annual income of a deceased or an injured which could be taken into consideration therefor is Rs.40, 0001-, however, keeping in view the peculiar factual
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