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2002 Supreme(Del) 922

R.C.CHOPRA
UNITED INDIA INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED – Appellant
Versus
MOHINDER KAUR – Respondent


R. C. Chopra

( 1 ) THE appellant Insurance Company assails the orders dated 23. 2. 2000 passed by learned Motor Accident claims Tribunal in S. No. 625/95 by which a compensation of Rs. 6,65,000/- with interest @ 12 per cent per annum was awarded in favour of the respondents-claimants on account of the death of deceased Gurdeep Singh in a road accident on 15. 4. 1995. The appellant-Insurer has assailed the quantum of compensation solely on the ground that the deceased was unmarried and the respondents-claimants are his mother and younger sisters and brother but the learned Tribunal has awarded compensation to them without taking into consideration that the deceased was likely to get married and thereafter the financial support to the respondents-claimants was likely to be reduced to a considerable extent.

( 2 ) THE facts relevant for the disposal of this appeal, briefly stated, are that the respondents-claimants, the mother and younger sisters and brother of deceased Gurdeep Singh, had filed a petition for compensation alleging that on 15. 4. 1995 the deceased Gurdeep Singh sustained fatal injuries while going on a Scooter when he was hit by a Truck No. DHL-3357 which was being drive









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