NEUTRAL CITATION NO. 2025:MPHC-JBP:53167 IN THE HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH AT JABALPUR BEFORE HON'BLE SHRI JUSTICE PRADEEP MITTAL ON THE 17 th OF OCTOBER, 2025 MISC. APPEAL No. 3350 of 2022 NIGHAT AND OTHERS Versus RAMDAS AND OTHERS Appearance:

Shri Pravesh Naveriya - Advocate for appellant. Shri Aditya Krishna – Advocate for respondent.

ORDER

1. This miscellaneous appeal under Section 173(1) of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 has been filed against the award dated 19.04.2022, passed by the First Additional Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Fast Track, Betul, in MACC No. 47/2017.

2. Since the factum of the accident is not in dispute, it would suffice to state that on 19.05.2016, the deceased Appu@ Aaftab, aged about 28 years, lost his life in a vehicular accident.

3. Learned counsel for the appellant submits that the Tribunal has erred in holding that income of the deceased of Rs.5000/-. The deceased was Signature Not Verified working as Photographer and on the date of incident i.e. 19.05.2016, the income of unskilled worker and as per minimum wages guidline the income of unskilled worker was 6850/- per month. Therefore, the Tribunal should be applied income of deceased Rs.6850/- per month