Supreme Court of India

Manjusri Raha & Ors Etc v. B. L. Gupta & Ors. Etc.

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Reported as [1977] 2 S.C.R. 944
Bench V. R. Krishna Iyer and S. Murtaza Ali JJ.
Decided 9 February 1977

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Motor Vehicles Act 1939-Sec. 95(2)(d)--Sec. l IOA:..__Principles to deter­ mine compensation payable for death in a bus accident-Increments and pen­ sionary benefits, whether to be taken into account. Satindra Nath Raha and Uma Shankar Shastri were travelling by a bus owned by Gupta of M. P. Speedways Company. They were travelling from Bhind to Gwalior. On the' high way, a bus owned by Bhuta came from the opposite direction. On account of negligence of drivers of both the buses. there was a head-on collision of the two buses, as a consequence of which Raha and Shastri sustained fatal injuries

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