A.H.JOSHI
New India Assurance Co. Ltd. – Appellant
Versus
Aslam Ajgarali Makrani – Respondent
1] This first appeal is taken up for final disposal by consent of the parties.
2] In the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Mumbai, the learned Tribunal awarded the compensation under various heads as follows:
3] The challenge in appeal is restricted by the appellant to Rs.9,00,000/- The heads of compensation under challenge are:-
Loss of future income Rs. 2,00,000.00
Future medical treatment Rs. 7,20,000.00
4] Ground of challenge in relation to award of compensation for enabling the claimant to meet the recurring / future medical treatment, which reads as follows:
“(d) The Ld. Judge has wrongly awarded Rs.7,20,000/- to the Respondent No. 1 under “Future Medical Treatment.” There is no sufficient evidence to that effect. The treating doctor has stated that the patient was spending about Rs.15,000/- per year on the treatment, in his exam-in-chief. The Ld. Judge ought to have confined to that figure only.”
(copied from page no.3 of memo of appeal)
5] The ground of challenge in relation to award of loss of future income, reads as follows:
“(f) The Ld. Judge wrongly awarded Rs.2 lakhs towards loss of future income, when there was none. The Claimant has himself admitted in th
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