{"id":15317,"date":"2011-12-09T11:20:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T05:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=15317"},"modified":"2011-12-09T11:20:55","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T05:50:55","slug":"supreme-court-wants-just-relief-to-road-accident-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-wants-just-relief-to-road-accident-victims","title":{"rendered":"Supreme court wants just relief to road accident victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/supreme-court-wants-just-relief-to-road-accident-victims\/supreme-court-149\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15318\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15318\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-wants-just-relief-to-road-accident-victims\/supreme-court-149\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/12\/supreme-court1.png?fit=136%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"136,144\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"supreme court\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/12\/supreme-court1.png?fit=136%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/12\/supreme-court1.png?fit=136%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15318\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/supreme-court1.png?resize=136%2C144&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court Thursday awarded a compensation of nearly Rs.11 lakh, including interest, to the parents of a man who died in a road accident in Tamil Nadu in 1999 and emphasised on giving just relief to victims of such incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Anbu alias Anbarasu died in an accident on Perunduri Road of Erode district in Tamil Nadu. He was riding a motorbike when a speeding state transport corporation bus crushed him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the duty of the courts and tribunals to award just compensation to the victims of the road accidents,&#8221; said the apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya.<\/p>\n<p>Granting a compensation of Rs.4.80 lakh to parents of Anbu, the court said that compensation amount would attract an interest of 9 percent per annum from the day of the filing of petition June 16, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>The interest on Rs.4.80 lakh would be paid for 11 years and the total amount may add up to nearly Rs.11 lakh.<\/p>\n<p>The court directed the state express transport corporation to comply with its order within three months and pay the compensation to victim&#8217;s parents, Meenakshi and Nallasamy.<\/p>\n<p>The court said that 50 percent of the total compensation would be put in a fixed deposit in the name of Anbu&#8217;s mother Meenakshi and the balance would be given to Nallasamy by way of a bank draft.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing for the petitioner parents, counsel V. Arunagiri told the court that the high court was not justified in modifying the amount of compensation from Rs.4.38 lakh to Rs.3.38 lakh.<\/p>\n<p>The Erode based Motor Accident Claims Tribunal by its order dated July 14, 2005, earlier awarded a compensation of Rs.4.38 lakh to the victim&#8217;s parents.<\/p>\n<p>The Madras High Court by its judgment July 11, 2008, while allowing an appeal by the state had modified the compensation amount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court Thursday awarded a compensation of nearly Rs.11 lakh, including interest, to the parents of a man who died in a road accident in Tamil Nadu in 1999 and emphasised on giving just relief to victims of such incidents. 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