DTC to pay Rs 34 lakh to family of road mishap

The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) has instructed Delhi Transport Corporation to pay over Rs 34 lakh to the family members of a man who was run over by a DTC bus.
The MACT directed the United India Insurance Company Ltd, with which the bus was insured, to pay a total compensation of Rs 34,13,656 to the kin of Hari Charan Ram, who had died on October 14, 2011 after being hit by the DTC bus here.
The tribunal relied on the statement of Jagdish, who was an eye witness to the accident and had also sustained grievous injuries, and said that Ram died due to the rash and negligent driving of the driver of the DTC bus.

"In view of the aforesaid judgements and testimony of eye witness Jagdish, ....Preponderance of probability is that deceased (Ram) died due to rash and negligent driving of the offending vehicle by R1 (Rajinder Singh)," MACT judge Rekha Rani said.
The order came on a petition filed by family members of Ram, who was working as a guard in a hospital here, seeking compensation.
They told the tribunal that Ram was coming to his house on foot and when he reached at Jahangirpuri, a DTC bus came from behind after jumping the traffic signal which was red and hit him and another pedestrian Jagdish.

Ram was run over by the bus and died at the spot, they said.
During the adjudication of the plea, Jagdish told the tribunal that on October 14, 2011 he was going to his office in Jahangirpuri and was walking on the road when the DTC bus came from behind after jumping the red light and hit Ram and him.
Rajinder Singh, driver of the bus, contested the plea and claimed that the accident took place due to negligence of Ram and he had not jumped the red light.