Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 126 · Decided 9 February 2018
Sube Singh and ANR. v. Shyam Singh (Dead) and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 126 · [2018] 1 S.C.R. 636
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 7176/2015
- Decided
- 9 February 2018
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, A.M. KHANWILKAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act Section 166
Headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988: s.166 - Multiplier - Fatal accident - Victim aged 23 years - High Court applied multiplier of 14 for determining compensation amount in reference to the age of parents of the deceased - Parents of the of 18 - Held: In Sarla Verma case, it was held that the multiplier should be chosen from the table with reference to the age of the deceased and not the age of the dependents - In view of the said decision, multiplier of 18 to be applied for paying compensation to the
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