JUPITER GENERAL INSURANCE CO. Vs. BALKISHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) AMAR Nath Sachdeva, who had a newspaper stall at the bus stand Zira was run-over by the truck PNB-2560 while going across the road to hand over a bundle of newspapers to the driver of the bus going to Talwandi Bhai. This happended on July 7, 1973 at about 9 A.M. He died later at night at the hospital at Amritsar, where he had been taken after the accident.

(2.) IT is in respect of this accident that the Tribunal awarded a sum of Rs. 50,000/- as compensation to the claimants, who are the two minor sons of the deceased, Balkishan and Yudhvir.

(3.) THE legality of the award of Rs. 5,000/- as compensation for loss of love and affection was also questioned.