Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 193 · Decided 14 February 2008
Oriental Insurance Company LTD. v. Jashuben and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 193 · [2008] 2 S.C.R. 930
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1272/2008
- Decided
- 14 February 2008
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, V.S. SIRPURKAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act Section 166
Headnote
~ Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 - s. 166 - Accidents claim - Determination of compensation - Assistant working in ONGC c met with accident while traveling in a bus and died - lncidef!t occurred in 1994 - Determination of compensation by Courts below by taking into consideration future prospects of the made by ONGC w.e.f. 1'-1- 1997 - Challenge to - Held: Present case is not one where, 0 as on date of death, salary of deceased was revised with retrospective effect from 1994 - Salary would be revised or ~ not was not known at that point of time - Only because salary was revised at a later
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