{"id":198198,"date":"1989-08-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1989-08-03T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/kanhiya-lal-vs-state-of-haryana-etc-on-4-august-1989"},"modified":"2018-06-21T00:15:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T18:45:15","slug":"kanhiya-lal-vs-state-of-haryana-etc-on-4-august-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/kanhiya-lal-vs-state-of-haryana-etc-on-4-august-1989","title":{"rendered":"Kanhiya Lal vs State Of Haryana Etc. on 4 August, 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Delhi High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Kanhiya Lal vs State Of Haryana Etc. on 4 August, 1989<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: ILR 1989 Delhi 320, 1989 RLR 420<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Malik<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: M Sharief-Ud-Din<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT  <\/p>\n<p> Malik, J.  <\/p>\n<p> (1) The appellants filed this appeal making a grievance against the award of the Motor Accident Claims Tri- bunal dated 18th of July 1988 by which the appellants were allowed compensation to the tune of Rs. 45,0001- for the death of their son aged about 18 years who died in a motor accident on 7th of May, 1983. The court on 20th of April 1989 directed a notice to be sent to the other party to show cause why the appeal shall not be admitted limited to the, question of interest. I have heard the learned counsel for the parties today as the appeal was admitted restricted to the question of interest on 10th of August 1989.\n<\/p>\n<p>(2) The counsel for the respondents has urged that the delay was caused due to the laches on the part of the appellants and that a specific mention of this fact ha, been made by the Tribunal in para 28 of its order. Indeed; the Tribunal has made an observation that since the delay was caused due to the laches on the part of the appellants t1iey could not be allowed any interest.\n<\/p>\n<p>(3) Grant of interest in such cases is discretionary but like every other discretion it has to be excised judicially on the facts and circumstances of each case. In my view, even if it is assumed that there was delay on the part of the. appellants in expediting the proceedings the facts and circumstances of this case do warrants the exercise of discretion in favor of the appellants. The deceased was a young boy of 18 years when he met with the accident, he was a conductor and would have in normal .course improved his chances in life had he not been involved in .this accident. The compensation was awarded in the year 1988 and it was mainly because of the resistance offered by the respondent. Rs. 15,0001- were paid at the earliest possible stage as no fault liability and the payment of Rs. 30,000&#8242;- was deferred till the final conclusion of the claim. The purchasing power of the money when it was paid has been considerably reduced. If the amount were paid within a year of the accident there would be no ground for granting of any interest. In that view of the matter. I am of the opinion that this is a fit case where the appellants must be allowed interest at the rate of 9 per cent per annum on Rs. 30,000]- from the date of claim till the date of final payment. I order accordingly, and the appeal is allowed to this limited extent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi High Court Kanhiya Lal vs State Of Haryana Etc. on 4 August, 1989 Equivalent citations: ILR 1989 Delhi 320, 1989 RLR 420 Author: Malik Bench: M Sharief-Ud-Din JUDGMENT Malik, J. (1) The appellants filed this appeal making a grievance against the award of the Motor Accident Claims Tri- bunal dated 18th of July 1988 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delhi-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kanhiya Lal vs State Of Haryana Etc. on 4 August, 1989 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/kanhiya-lal-vs-state-of-haryana-etc-on-4-august-1989\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kanhiya Lal vs State Of Haryana Etc. on 4 August, 1989 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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