Officials of General Insurance Company presented the cheque for the amount to the family of Nedunchezhiyan after MACT Judge M P Subramanian and Additional District Judge Ravichandran ordered the compensation at the Lok Adalat held here yesterday.
Nedunchezhian (45), who was the chief motor mechanic of a private firm at Odisha, succumbed to injuries following a collision involving his two wheeler and another bike here on December 2012.
His family submitted that Nedunchezhian was earning a monthly salary of Rs 1.6 lakh and he was their only earning member. They sought Rs 4.4 crore as compensation.