{"id":34249,"date":"2018-10-30T16:30:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=34249"},"modified":"2018-10-30T16:30:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T11:00:56","slug":"sc-relief-for-self-employed-salaried-road-accident-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-relief-for-self-employed-salaried-road-accident-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"SC relief for self-employed, salaried road accident victims:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.in\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwi348auwpzXAhXJuY8KHUPmC9IQqOcBCCUwAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehindu.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Fsc-relief-for-self-employed-salaried-road-accident-victims%2Farticle19957176.ece&amp;usg=AOvVaw0GQK8RJ7Z1oVoiTE_Ex63Q\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SC relief for self-employed, salaried road accident victims<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court has held that the \u2018future prospects\u2019 of a road crash vict\u00adim must be taken into account while computing the amount of compensati\u00ado\u00adn due to him under the Motor Vehicles Act.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>How was the compensation rewarded earlier?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compensation is awarded by the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal based on the victim\u2019s income, personal living expenses and other factors at the time of death.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The courts would only take the actual income drawn by the victim at the time of death<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The courts would only take the actual income drawn by the victim at the time of death. A departure could be made only in \u201crare and exceptional cases involving special circumstances.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is the verdict?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court modified the guidelines to include the possibility of future increases in the victim\u2019s income as well as improvement in his living standards.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Irrespective of whether the victim is salaried, their future prospects must be considered while deciding the amount<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Constitution Bench fixed guidelines for computing motor accident claims for self-employed and salaried persons.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What are the new rules for a salaried victim?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the road accident victim had a permanent job at the time of his or her death in a road accident<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">50% of his actual salary will be added towards future prospects if his age is below 40 years<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">30% if the age of the victim is between 40 to 50 years<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">15% if the age is in the 50-60 brackets<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What are the new rules for a self-employed victim?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Similarly if the victim was self-employed or on a fixed salary<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">40% will be added to his established income if his or her age was below 40 years at the time of death<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An addition of 25% if the victim was in the 40-50 age brackets<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10% if he or she was between 50 to 60 years.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Interpreting Section 168 of the Act<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interpreting Section 168 of the Act, it must be ensured that the compensation amount is \u2018just\u2019 and has been determined on the foundation of fairness, reasonableness and equitability.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To follow the doctrine of actual income at the time of death and not to add any amount with regard to future prospects to the income for the purpose of determination of multiplicand would be unjust<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SC relief for self-employed, salaried road accident victims: Context The Supreme Court has held that the \u2018future prospects\u2019 of a road crash vict\u00adim must be taken into account while computing the amount of compensati\u00ado\u00adn due to him under the Motor Vehicles Act. How was the compensation rewarded earlier? Compensation is awarded by the Motor Accidents&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-relief-for-self-employed-salaried-road-accident-victims\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SC relief for self-employed, salaried road accident victims:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704894137},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}