Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 95 · Decided 3 February 2009
U.P. State Road Transport Corporation v. Shanti Devi and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 95 · [2009] 1 S.C.R. 731
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 597/2009
- Decided
- 3 February 2009
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, MUKUNDAKAM SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act Section 166, 110
Headnote
). Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 - s. 166 - Compensation - Appropriate multiplier - Determination of - Fatal accident of c -< person aged 45 years - Survived by wife and 5 children - Annual income assessed as Rs.60001- -Award of Rs. 90,0001 - applying multiplier of 15 - - by High Court - On appeal, held: When there is lack of ~ material regarding income of deceased, there should be some D _, amount of guesswork but not totally detached from reality - In the instant case, appropriate multiplier would be 11 and annual income is assessed as Rs. 18, 0001- -
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