Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 469 · Decided 8 April 2009
Rani Gupta & ORS. v. M/S. United India Insurance CO. LTD. & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 469 · [2009] 5 S.C.R. 721
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2241/2009
- Decided
- 8 April 2009
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, CYRIAC JOSEPH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act
Headnote
MOTOR VEHICLES ACT, 1988: Income of deceased - Computing of - Future income - c Appropriate multiplier to be adopted - Held: In order to assess loss of dependency, an average gross future monthly income must be arrived at by adding the actual gross income at the '1 time of death, to the maximum got had he not met the premature death - Tribunal D having considered the age of deceased as 46 years and the fact that he had paid up the bank loan, correctly held that the income of deceased would have doubled at the time of his death- Multiplier of 10 applied by High Court cannot be said to
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