The Indian Express ·
‘No casual worker’: 29 years after woman’s accident death, daughter gets Rs 58 lakh
The woman was allegedly working as an Anganwadi worker and tailor but was considered to be an unskilled daily wager due to a lack of documents in 2001, the Punjab and Haryana High Court noted.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has raised the compensation to be paid to a daughter who lost her mother in a 1997 road accident from Rs 1.92 lakh to Rs 57.96 lakh, noting that though the girl was a minor at the time of the accident, she is now an adult and the compensation must be released directly into her bank account.
Justice Amarinder Singh Grewal was on September 9 hearing an appeal filed by the victim’s daughter who challenged the compensation of Rs 1.92 lakh awarded by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) on November 1, 2001.
“A perusal of the record shows that the learned Tribunal, while rejecting the plea of her dual income as an Anganwari worker and tailor for want of formal documentary proof, relegated the status of the deceased mother to a casual manual labourer. This approach is legally unsustainable,” it added, while mentioning that the woman earned about Rs 30,000 per month.
