Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 447 · Decided 30 June 2020
United India Insurance CO. LTD. v. Satinder Kaur @ Satwinder Kaur & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 447 · [2020] 5 S.C.R. 669
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2705/2020
- Decided
- 30 June 2020
- Bench
- S. ABDUL NAZEER, INDU MALHOTRA, ANIRUDDHA BOSE (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution; Motor Vehicles Act
Headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 - Motor vehicle accident - Death - Compensation - Computation of - Person living in Qatar since 1984 was visiting India in Nov. 1998 when he met with an accident while riding a scooter, with his wife as pillion rider, with a Maruti car coming - Tribunal calculated the compensation at Rs.1,90,000 with interest @ 9% p.a. - High Court computed the total compensation at Rs.96,78,000 with interest @ 7.5% p.a. - Held: In the absence of any other evidence produced by the Claimants, the income of the deceased computed by
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