Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 912 · Decided 16 August 2019
SMT. Sunita Tokas & ANR. v. New India Insurance CO. LTD. & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 912 · [2019] 10 S.C.R. 616
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6339/2019
- Decided
- 16 August 2019
- Bench
- INDU MALHOTRA, SANJIV KHANNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution; Motor Vehicles Act Section 166
Headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988: s.166 - Multiplier in case of a bachelor - Appellants are parents of the victim-deceased - The case of the appellants was that on the fateful day, victim-deceased was travelling as a pillion rider of a two-wheeler - stationary truck standing in the middle of the road - Both the driver and the pillion rider died on the spot - Victim- deceased was 21 years old at the time of accident - MACT assessed notional income of the deceased at Rs.16246 p.m. and a multiplier of 15 based on the age of
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