{"id":75534,"date":"2005-12-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/pusaiya-bai-and-ors-vs-beni-ram-verma-and-ors-on-20-december-2005"},"modified":"2016-09-17T22:55:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T17:25:44","slug":"pusaiya-bai-and-ors-vs-beni-ram-verma-and-ors-on-20-december-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/pusaiya-bai-and-ors-vs-beni-ram-verma-and-ors-on-20-december-2005","title":{"rendered":"Pusaiya Bai And Ors. vs Beni Ram Verma And Ors. on 20 December, 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Chattisgarh High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Pusaiya Bai And Ors. vs Beni Ram Verma And Ors. on 20 December, 2005<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: II (2006) ACC 460, 2007 ACJ 643<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: S Nayak<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: S Nayak, S K Agnihotri<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>S.R. Nayak, C.J.<\/p>\n<p>1. Should we say that as we read the impugned award it reflects total ignorance of the settled principles of law governing computation of compensation on the part of the learned Presiding Officer of the Tribunal? He does not seem to have been aware of the norms and principles governing the process of computing just and reasonable compensation in a death case. We are constrained to use this strong language. The M.A.C.T. having taken daily income of the deceased as Rs. 85, ought to have applied multiplier method for computing loss of dependency. If daily income of deceased was Rs. 85, which we round off to Rs. 90 and if we deduct one-third from that income for personal expenses, the actual loss of dependency per day would be Rs. 60. As per the post-mortem report, the age of the deceased was 60 years and, therefore, the appropriate multiplier to be applied is 8. Thus, total loss of dependency would come to Rs. 1,72,800 (Rs. 60 x 30 x 12&#215;8). To this we add sum of Rs. 20,000 for &#8216;loss of consortium&#8217; and Rs. 20,000 for &#8216;loss to the estate&#8217; and Rs. 5,000 towards &#8216;funeral expenses&#8217;.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. In the result and for the foregoing reasons, we allow the appeal in part and in substitution of the impugned award passed by the M.A.C.T., we award total compensation of Rs. 2,17,800 under the following heads:\n<\/p>\n<pre>  Loss of dependency      Rs. 1,72,800\nLoss of consortium      Rs.   20,000\nFuneral expenses        Rs.    5,000\nLoss to estate          Rs.   20,000\n                        ____________\n                Total   Rs. 2,17,800\n                        ____________\n \n\nwith interest at the rate of 6 per cent per annum from the date of the claim petition till payment.\n \n\n<\/pre>\n<p>3. The insurance company shall deposit the balance compensation money before the M.A.C.T. within 6 weeks from today. On such deposit being made, the M.A.C.T. shall disburse\/invest the compensation money in the same proportions as specified by it in the impugned award.\n<\/p>\n<p>4. In the facts and circumstances of the case, both the parties are directed to bear their respective costs in this appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chattisgarh High Court Pusaiya Bai And Ors. vs Beni Ram Verma And Ors. on 20 December, 2005 Equivalent citations: II (2006) ACC 460, 2007 ACJ 643 Author: S Nayak Bench: S Nayak, S K Agnihotri JUDGMENT S.R. Nayak, C.J. 1. 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