Corpn, school to pay Rs 4.8L each to parents of drowned boy

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Press Trust of India Madurai
Last Updated : Apr 16 2015 | 10:42 PM IST
The Madras High Court today ordered the city corporation and a private school here to pay a compensation of Rs 4.8 lakh each to parents of a 14-year-old boy who drowned in a corporation swimming pool in 2009.
Justice V M Velumani, who passed the order on a petition by the boy's father, said both the school and the corporation were guilty of negligence. While the institution failed to prevent the Class VI student from visiting the pool, the corporation had not posted a lifeguard there.
The judge fixed a notional monthly income of Rs 7,500 and multiplied it for 16 years as done in the case of motor vehicle accidents.
The petitioner said he had dropped his son near a college here on January 22, 2009 for participating in a marathon race and left for work as the physical education teacher had reportedly promised to take back the children to school after the event.
He was later informed that his son had drowned in the pool.
School officials were present during the race and some students, including his son, went to the pool without information.
"This statement itself amounts to negligence on the part of the correspondent and principal," the judge said.
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First Published: Apr 16 2015 | 10:42 PM IST