Information Report, Post-Mortem Certificate, Legal heirship Certificate, Identification card of the deceased, Insurance Policy, Motor Vehcile Inspector’s Report along with the testimony of the witnesses, has fixed the notional income of the deceased at Rs.15,000/-, added 40% towards the future prospects, applying multiplier’’18’’ and the principle laid down in National Insurance Company Limited .vs. Pranay Sethi’s and others reported in 2013(9) SCC 54 , has awarded a compenstion of Rs.23,38,000/- together with interest at the rate of 7.5% per annum. The father and mother were directed to apportion the compensation equally. Being aggrieved, the claimants have preferred an appeal stating that the notional income of Rs.15,000/- is very less and as per the dictum of the Court, for an Engineering student, at least a sum of Rs.20,000/- should have been fixed as notional income. Whereas, the Insurance Company in their appeal, has stated that in the very First Information Report itself, it is stated that the deceased had travelled in the Foot Board and therefore he has also contributed to the accident. Hence the Tribunal ought to have deducted at least a substantial amount from the compensation, for the contributory negligence on the part of the deceased.
