NEW DELHI: The Gujarat high court has ruled that brothers of a person killed in a road accident can claim compensation under the Motor Vehicles Act even if they were not financially dependent on the deceased.Justice Mool Chand Tyagi held that being a legal representative is sufficient to maintain a claim, and financial dependency is…
Enforcement: Officials seize a KKRTC bus in Gangavathi, Koppal district, Tuesday after court order Gangavathi: A KKRTC bus was seized Tuesday and produced before a court after the transport corporation allegedly failed to pay the balance compensation awarded to the family of a man killed in a road accident nearly eight years ago.Mahantesh, 35, a…
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has held that the disabled sister of the deceased victim of a May 1991 road accident is also entitled to receive compensation along with his widow and children.It recognised Sridhar Shetty’s sister as a ‘legal representative’, citing Supreme Court’s Oct 2021 judgment that the term under the Motor Vehicles Act…
