Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 104 · Decided 7 February 2011
Sunil Sharma & ORS. v. Bachitar Singh & Ors
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 104 · [2011] 2 S.C.R. 576
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1440/2011
- Decided
- 7 February 2011
- Bench
- G.S. SINGHVI, A.K. GANGULY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act
Headnote
MOTOR VEHICLES ACT, 1988: c Fatal motor accident - Claim petition - Compensation - Computation of income of deceased - Deductions - Multiplier - Compensation towards revision in pay, loss of love and affection and consortium - Held : Deduction from the income of deceased towards HRA, CCA, EPF, not have been made by Tribunal - As deceased was married, 1/3rd should be deducted from her income towards personal expenses - Annual income of deceased, thus, calculated to Rs. 1,89,6401- -Addition of 30% by way of future prospects allowed - Deceased being 41 years of age, multiplier 14 to be
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