Content Provider | Supreme Court of India |
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e-ISSN | 30484839 |
Language | English |
Access Restriction | NDLI |
Subject Keyword | Motor Vehicles Act 1988 |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Law Judgement |
Jurisdiction | India |
Case(s) Referred | Referred Case 0 Referred Case 1 Referred Case 2 Referred Case 3 Referred Case 4 Referred Case 5 Referred Case 6 |
Case Type | Appeal |
Court | Supreme Court of India |
Disposal Nature | Appeal Disposed Off |
Headnote | Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 – s.168 – Compensation – ‘Just compensation’ – Assessment of – On 08.08.1998, at the age of two years appellant sustained very serious injuries in a motor accident – Tribunal dismissed the claim of appellant on technical grounds – In appeal, the High Court referred the appellant/claimant before Medical Board for examination and assessment of permanent disability – Medical Board opined that the disability caused to appellant was almost 100% – High Court came to the conclusion that appellant was entitled to be compensated, and directed first respondent-Insurance Company, to pay quantified compensation of Rs. 13.34 lakhs with interest @ 7.5 % p.a. from the date of the petition till the date of the payment – Compensation was awarded under heads of a) Attender Charges, b) Pain and Sufferings and Loss of Amenities, c) Marriage Prospects, d) Future Medical Treatment and e) Grant of additional amount for special diet – Plea before Supreme Court for grant of ‘just compensation’ by enhancement of compensation under the various heads – Held: The evidence on record show that the injuries sustained by appellant in the motor accident virtually doomed her future – The corporeal independence was lost forever – The state of her lower limbs, as revealed from the photographs supporting the certification of the opinion of the Medical Board, suggested that she could never be cursorial or even, stretch her legs – In troth, she could not stand sans support – She lost all her amenities and marriage prospects – The contextual situation revealed an impossibility to bring back the appellant to her original position – On careful scrutiny of the heads of compensation, bearing in mind the decision in Kajal’s case, the appellant is entitled to grant of enhancement of compensation on certain grounds – Appellant entitled to total enhanced amount of Rs. 24.90 lakhs (comprising of enhanced amounts towards attender charges; pain and sufferings and loss of amenities; marriage prospects; future medical treatment and grant of additional amount for special diet) in addition to the amount already awarded by the High Court – Insurance company to deposit the enhanced amount with interest @ 7.5% per annum with effect from 29.08.2018 till the date of deposit. |
Judge | Hon'ble Mr. Justice C.T. Ravikumar |
Neutral Citation | 2022 INSC 1108 |
Petitioner | Divya |
Respondent | The National Insurance Co. Ltd. & Anr |
SCR | [2022] 14 S.C.R. 956 |
Judgement Date | 2022-10-18 |
Case Number | 7605 |
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