Supreme Court Allows Appeal by Claimants in Motor Accident Case, Enhances Compensation by Including Major Sons and Married Daughter as Dependents. The Court applied the Birender principle that legal representatives need not be fully dependent, and recalculated compensation under Section 168 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988.
11 Feb 2025The appeal arose from a motor accident claim where the deceased, Dev Raj, aged 50, died in a collision with a bus on 13 May 2015. The claimants, his w...




