Supreme Court of India

Smt. Sunita Tokas & Anr. v. New India Insurance Co. Ltd. & Anr.

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Reported as [2019] 10 S.C.R. 616
Bench Indu Malhotra and Sanjiv Khanna JJ.
Decided 16 August 2019

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Motor Vehicles Act, 1988: s.166 – Multiplier in cas e of a bachelor – Appellants are parents of the victim-decease d – The case of the appellants was that on the fateful day, vict im-deceased was travelling as a pillion rider of a two-wheeler – Th e two-wheeler dashed against stationary truck standing in the middle o f the road – Both the driver and the pillion rider died on the spot – Victim- deceased was 21 years old at the time of accident – MACT asse ssed notional income of the deceased at Rs.16246 p.m. and a multipli er of 15 based on the age of mother of the deceased and accord ingly

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