VIMAL KUMAR JAIN Vs. ROOP NARAYAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS appeal has been preferred by the claimants-appellants, who are the parents and brothers of the deceased. The appeal has been filed after a delay of 154 days. However, the delay in filing the appeal was condoned merely in the interest of justice to the parties, although no sufficient cause has been shown by them.

(2.) IN so far as the merit of the appeal is concerned, it appears that the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Dausa awarded a sum of Rs. 2,85,000/- to the legal representatives of the deceased after computing his income as Rs. 3,000/- per month. The parents and the brothers of the deceased, feeling aggrieved with the same, preferred an appeal before the learned Single Judge, which was dismissed as the appellants had failed to serve the notices on the respondents, against which this special appeal has been preferred.

(3.) IT is not disputed that the multiplier to the income of the deceased has been properly applied and the only ground of challenge to the award is the erroneous appreciation of evidence by the Tribunal as per the submission of the counsel for the claimants-appellants pertaining to the income proof of the deceased, in which we find no substance for the reasons stated hereinbefore.