U P JAL NIGAM Vs. SARYU DEVI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) J. C. S. Rawat, J. 1. This appeal, preferred us 110-D of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939, is directed against the award dated 06-12-1983 passed by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Pauri Garhwal, in M. A. C. Case No. 31 of 1979 whereby the claim of the claimants was allowed for an amount of compensation to the tune of Rs. 2,24,000/- with interest at the rate of Rs. 9% per annum from the date of claim petition upto the date of payment and the appellant-U. P. Jal Nigam was directed to pay the same.

(2.) BRIEF facts of the case are that claimants had filed a claim petition be fore the Tribunal for grant of compen sation of Rs. 10,00,000/- together with interest at the rate of 9% per annum against the appellant-U. P. Jal Nigam and another alleging therein that on 19-03-1979 when Mool Chandra Gupta, Assistant Engineer of the U. P Jal Nigam was travelling in offending Jeep No. U. T. S.-61 belonging to U. P Jal Nigam from Pauri to Chaubattakhal on duty, the offending jeep met with an accident causing death of the occupants of the said vehicle including Mool Chandra Gupta, Assistant Engineer (except Govind Prasad Mamgain Driver-DW-2 ). It was further alleged that the deceased was 30 years of age at the time of the accident and his pay scale was 550-30-70 EB 40-900 EB-50-1200. His monthly emoluments were Rs. 7807- plus allow ances.

(3.) FEELING aggrieved by the impugned award, the present appeal has been filed by the appellant.