Supreme Court of India

G. Dhanasekar v. M.D. Metropolitan Transport Corpn. Ltd.

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Reported as [2014] 1 S.C.R. 1021
Bench Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya and Kurian Joseph JJ.
Decided 12 February 2014

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that it is a case where the appellant should be given just and reasonable s compensation for his functional disability as his income has been affected.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

MOTOR VEHICLES ACT, 1988: s.166 - Compensation - Functional disability - Accident of victim's car with a bus resulting in fracture of victim's right arm and leg - Victim driver by profession - Tribunal held that negligence on part of driver of bus was root cause of accident, however, it further held that · manner of accident showed that both the vehicles came in uncontrollable speed and dashed against each other and, therefore, drivers of both the vehicles were equally responsible - Tribunal fixed liability of appellant at 50% while High Court reduced the liability to 30% - On appeal, held:

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