By the Court.—This claimants’ appeal, for enhancement of the awarded amount, has been filed against the award/judgment and decree dated 11th February, 2002 passed by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal/IVth Additional District Judge, Ghaziabad in Motor Accident Claims Petition No. 205 of 2001 (Smt. Medha Aggarwal and others v. The New India Insurance Company Ltd. and another), by which the claim petition was partly allowed and the opposite party was directed to pay Rs. 5,25,000/- as compensation with 9% interest.

2. The award has been challenged on number of grounds; namely, (a) the Tribunal has erred in deducting the conveyance allowance, house rent allowance, education allowance, etc. from the income of the appellants; (b) the Tribunal has also erred in using the multiplier of 10; whereas, in view of the decision of the Hon’ble Apex Court in Sarla Verma and others v. Delhi Transport Corporation and another, 2009 (2) TAC 677 SC, multiplier of 14 ought to have been applied as the age of the deceased was 44 years at the time of accident; and (c) the Tribunal has erred in