Supreme Court · 2026 INSC 661 · Decided 1 July 2026
Rashmirekha Tripathy and ANR. v. The Branch Manager (Legal Claims), Sriram General Insurance Company Limited and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2026 INSC 661 · [2026] 7 S.C.R. 494
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 8735/2026
- Decided
- 1 July 2026
- Bench
- SANJAY KAROL, N KOTISWAR SINGH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; Motor Vehicles Act
Headnote
Issue arose that for assessing the annual income of a deceased person or claimant under the Motor Vehicles Act, the ITRs for the previous year appropriate or average of the past two/three years to be Motor Vehicle Act, 1988 - s.166 - Compensation - Computation of annual income of the deceased victim on the basis of ITRs - Victim aged 39 years, sole breadwinner, running his own construction business, met with a road accident and succumbed to his
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