Court reaffirmed need to provide fair recompense to dependents of accident victims and laid down uniform framework for assessment of deceased person’s annual income.
Upholding a tribunal's award, the Gujarat HC ruled that brothers qualify as legal representatives and can seek accident compensation despite living separately and being financially independent.
Top court fixes a notional monthly income of Rs 30,000 to be taken as a benchmark in cases where homemakers have no direct and independent monetary earnings.
This suggestion comes from Mediation and Conciliation Project Committee as there are close to 12.4 lakh motor accident claim cases pending in tribunals and High Courts across India.
The Punjab & Haryana HC also awarded Rs 15 lakh for the ‘unspeakable suffering’ Shilpa Jain endured. Jain was in a vegetative state for three years after the accident. She died in 2017.
As Republicans in the US gear up to tear down the Supreme Court’s marriage equality ruling, American gays are rejecting queerness and offering up trans queer ‘radicals’ as a peace offering.
PM Modi inaugurates the Rs 79,459-crore HPCL-Rajasthan refinery, boosting refining and petrochemical capacity and advancing India's ambition to become a global refining hub.
The Congress party’s abandonment of nationalism is the most intriguing aspect of its post-2014 politics. The real Congress was never a party of bleeding heart pacifists.
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