Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, Section 430 -- Suspension of sentence subject to deposit of 20% of compensation amount - Financial condition of petitioner is not good since all the properties are under mortgage and he is under financial distress - Petitioner has shown his bona fide for depositing 10% of compensation amount, as he is left with no means but still..........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166 -- Accident - Compensation - Contributory negligence - Collusion between lorry and car - Death of driver of car - Car was dragged to a distance of 20 feet after collision, clearly indicating rash and negligent driving on the part of lorry driver - Contributory negligence on the drivers will be equal, since there is fault on the part of..........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166 -- Accident - Compensation - Multiplier - Deceased was 38 years old at the time of accident - Multiplier of 15 is thus, appropriate...........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166 -- Accident - Total compensation - Contributory negligence - Collusion between lorry and car - Death of driver of car - Keeping in view the age of deceased 38 years at the time of accident, multiplier of 15, deduction of 1/4th for personal expenses, addition of 40% for future prospects and various other heads under which claimants..........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166 -- Accident - Compensation - Multiplier - Deceased was 30 years old at the time of accident - Multiplier of 17 is thus, appropriate...........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166 -- Accident - Compensation - Income of deceased - Deceased was working in an unspecified job like a coolie - Accident occurred in the year 2010, 6 years from 2004 in which year Supreme Court had fixed 4,500 as income per month for a coolie, hence, it is presumed that a coolie in the year 2010 would have earned an income of 7500...........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166 -- Accident - Compensation - Future prospects - Self-employed person must be deemed to have had the future prospects at the rate of 40%, as held in Pranay Sethi case...........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166 -- Accident - Total compensation - Keeping in view the age of deceased 30 years at the time of accident, multiplier of 17, income of deceased 7500, deduction of 1/4th for personal expenses, addition of 40% for future prospects and various other heads under which claimants entitled to compensation, total compensation of Rs.18,36,500,..........
Employee's Compensation Act, 1923, Section 4 -- Accident - Determination of Functional disability - Appellant's working hand has been seriously mutilated by loss of one or more phalanges of four fingers - Middle and index finger having been disabled completely and ring finger and little finger having lost two phalanges and one phalanx respectively - Functionally it is..........
Consumer Protection Act, 2019, Section 35 -- Consumer complaint - There is no right or a privilege of a consumer to raise an unlimited claim of compensation and thereby chose a forum of his choice for instituting a complaint...........
