PRADEEP NANDRAJOG
LEKH RAJ – Appellant
Versus
SURAM SINGH – Respondent
PRADEEP NANDRAJOG, J.
( 1 ) APPELLANTS, parents of the deceased Ranjan Kumar, who died in an accident on 3. 5. 1993 seek enhancement of compensation awarded.
( 2 ) THE award is dated 15. 5. 2003. Loss of dependency to the appellants has been worked out as under:
" (15) According to Lekh Raj, PW 1, father of the deceased, deceased Ranjan kumar was working as conductor and used to give Rs. 1,000 per month for household expenses and at the time of accident was unmarried and was aged about 25 years. It has also been stated by pw 1 that if Ranjan Kumar would not have died, he would have been earning a sum of Rs. 3,000 per month. Keeping in view the age of the deceased Ranjan kumar and also his antecedents and the fact that he had passed Senior School certificate Examination in 1988 as per photocopy, Exh. PW 1/13 and also the background of the parents of the deceased and the age of the petitioners and also the future prospects, a compensation amount of Rs. 1,60,000 would be just and reasonable, which is being awarded as compensation in this case and this issue is decided accordingly. "
( 3 ) HARDLY any reasons are surfacing for me to appreciate as to what process of reasoning has been a
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