Supreme Court of India
New India Assurance Co. Ltd. v. Gopali & Ors.
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What the Court ordered
We hold that the learned Single Judge of the High Court did not commit any error by not following the rule of 1/3rd deduction towards the G personal expenses of the deceased.
Judgment, page 15
From the headnote
MOTOR VEHICLES ACT, 1988: s. 166 - Motor accident - Death of victim - Claim for compensation - Computation of income of deceased - Consideration of increase in income - Held: High Court was justified in determining the amount of compensation by o granting 100% increase in the income of the deceased - In the normal course, the deceased would have served for 22 years and during that period his salary would have certainly doubled because the employer was paying 20% of his salary as bonus per year - Insurer's challenge to the impugned order is meritless. Motor accident - Death of victim -
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Where later benches applied it
- 2013 Vimal Kanwar & Ors. v. Kishore Dan & Ors.
- 2022 Sidram v. The Divisional Manager, United India Insurance Co. Ltd. and Anr.
Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to
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