"The time has come for Parliament to have a rethink on properly assessing the value of homemakers' and householders' work and suitably amending the provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act and other related laws for giving compensation when the victims are women and homemakers," - observed the Hon'ble Supreme Court, while deciding the case of Arun Kumar Agrawal and Anr. Vs. National Insurance Company and Ors., reported in MANU/SC/0507/2010.

2. The lack of law has resulted in grant of inadequate compensation to the family of a homemaker and the Cross-Objection made in this case would go to show that there is every justification for the observation of the Hon'ble Supreme Court, cited supra.

3. In respect of the death of one Sakunthala, aged 50 years, a Vegetable Merchant and Farmer, earning a sum of Rs.7,000/- per month, the husband, daughters and sons (seven in numbers) of the deceased filed a claim petition, claiming a sum of Rs.7,00,000/-.

4. The claim was disputed by the respondent in the MCOP / Transport Corporation, on the ground that the alleged accident had happened only due to the negligent driving of the two-wheeler bearing Registration No.TN21-K-4548 and the petition is