Ayodhya Devi & Others v. Raj Kumar & Ors.
Punjab & Haryana HCFAO/639/2008
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
Motor-accident death compensation; just compensation; conventional heads; loss of estate; funeral expenses; loss of consortium; spousal consortium; parental consortium; filial consortium; multiplier by age of deceased; age per post-mortem report; Sarla Verma v. Delhi Transport Corporation; Pranay Sethi; Sunita v. Vinod Singh 2025 INSC 366; Dara Singh @ Dhara Banjara v. Shyam Singh Varma; R. Valli v. Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation; head-wise compensation table; text corrupted/illegible.
What did the court decide?
Compensation was worked out under the conventional heads laid down in National Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Pranay Sethi, with the judgment expressly reproducing spousal, parental and filial consortium among the component heads. ¶44