Supreme Court of India
Rani Gupta & Ors. v. M/s. United India Insurance Co. Ltd. & Ors.
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Judgment, page 17
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MOTOR VEHICLES ACT, 1988: Income of deceased - Computing of - Future income - c Appropriate multiplier to be adopted - Held: In order to assess loss of dependency, an average gross future monthly income must be arrived at by adding the actual gross income at the '1 time of death, to the maximum which the deceased might have got had he not met the premature death - Tribunal having considered the age of deceased as 46 years and the fact that he had paid up the bank loan, correctly held that the income of deceased would have doubled at the time of his death- Multiplier of 10 applied by High
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