Supreme Court of India

Rajendra Singh and Others v. National Insurance Company Limited and Others

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Reported as [2020] 6 S.C.R. 579
Bench Navin Sinha and B. R. Gavai JJ.
Decided 18 June 2020

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the appellants shall be entitled to future prospects at the rate of 40% in addition to the loss of consortium and future expenses already granted.

Judgment, page 6

From the headnote

Motor Vehicles Accident – Enhancement of compensati on – Victims, a housewife and her minor daughter, were trav elling in a horse cart, which was hit by a bus resulting in thei r death – The Tribunal awarded a total sum of Rs. 3,54,500/- for t he housewife and Rs. 1,60,000/- for the minor child – Appeal for enhancement of compensation dismissed by the High Court – On appea l, held: Deduction of 50% made by the Tribunal towards contr ibutory negligence while calculating the award is totally u njustified and unsustainable since no fault can be attributed to th e deceased as they were

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to

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