Supreme Court of India

United India Insurance Co. Ltd. Etc. Etc. v. Patrica Jean Mahajan and Ors. Etc. Etc.

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Reported as [2002] 3 S.C.R. 1176

Bench D.P. Mohapatra and Brijesh Kumar JJ.

Decided 8 July 2002

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that no such question as in the case of Oil and Natural Gas Commission (supra) is involved.

Judgment, page 29

From the headnote

Motor Vehicles Act, 1988: Second Schedule and Section /63A-Motor accident-Death- Compensation-Multiplier-Deviation from-Permissibility of-Held, ordinarily provisions contained in Second Schedule may be taken as a guide But in. case where gap of income is wide, deviation from the multiplier is permissible-For the purposes of fair compensation a lesser multiplier can be applied to a heavy amount of f!IUltiplicand. Compensation-Deduction on accoun~ of receipts under the Insurance Policy and other receipts under social security system-Whether perrnissible ~ld, such deduction for balancing

Authorities it was built on

1982 State of Maharashtra v. Ramdas Shrinivas Nayak & Anr. cited by 31
2001 Smt. Kaushnuma Begum and Ors. v. The New India Assurance Co. Ltd. and Ors. cited by 6
1961 Gobald Motor Service Ltd. & Another v. R. M. K. Velusw Ami & Others cited by 4

Where later benches applied it

2018 Sebastiani Lakra & Ors. v. National Insurance Company Ltd. & Anr. relied on
2015 Rajasthan State Road Transport Corpn. v. Alexis Sonier & Anr. relied on
2024 Dlf Ltd. (formerly Known as Dlf Universal Ltd) and Anr. v. Koncar Generators and Motors Ltd. referred to
2022 K. Ramya v. National Insurance Co. Ltd. & Anr. referred to
2016 Reliance General Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Shashi Sharma & Ors. referred to
2014 Raman v. Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Ltd. & Ors. referred to
2013 Dr. Balram Prasad v. Dr. Kunal Saha & Ors. mentioned
2013 Reshma Kumari and Ors. v. Madan Mohan and Anr. mentioned
2009 R.K. Malik and Anr. v. Kiran Pal and Ors. mentioned

Of those, 2 relied on · 4 referred to · 3 mentioned

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