Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 669 · Decided 3 October 2013
Sanobanu Nazirbhai Mirza & ORS. v. Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Service
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 669 · [2013] 9 S.C.R. 882
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 8251/2013
- Decided
- 3 October 2013
- Bench
- G.S. SINGHVI, V. GOPALA GOWDA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act Section 166
Headnote
MOTOR VEHICLES ACT, 1988: c s. 166 - Fatal motor accident - Compensation - Annual income of deceased-Polisher -- Addition towards future prospects - Multiplier - Tribunal and High Court taking annual income of deceased at Rs. 150001- -- Held: Claim petition having been filed u/s. income of 0 deceased at Rs. 15, 0001- per annum on the basis of /Ind Schedule to s. 163-A is an erroneous approach to determine just and reasonable compensation in favour of legal representatives of the deceased who was the sole earning member of family - Deceased was working as a polisher, E
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