The claimant of the deceased was denied compensation by the employer on the ground that her husband wasn’t killed in the course of his employment as a driver.
The Court has the power to award a just and fair compensation amount which is higher than what was claimed, said the Division Bench of Justice S.G Pandit and Justice A.R Hegde
Parents are dependent on their children at some stage of life and it would be inequitable to deny compensation to those who lost their ward in a road accident, the Delhi High Court has said. Justice J R Midha said even if parents are not dependent on their children at the time of an accident, they will certainly be dependent, both financially and emotionally, upon them at the later stage of their life, as the children were dependent upon their parents in their initial years. The high court s observations came while awarding compensation for loss of dependency to a woman, who lost her 23-year-old son in a road accident in 2008, and enhanced the award amount from Rs 2.42 lakh to Rs 6.80 lakh.