The family members of an MCD employee, who was crushed to death by a Delhi Transport Corporation bus, has been given a compensation of about Rs 36 lakh by a motor accident claims tribunal (MACT) here.
MACT Judge Rekha Rani directed the United India Insurance Company Ltd, with which the bus was insured, to pay the compensation to the kin of deceased Suresh Kumar, who was working as an MCD assistant sanitary inspector and had died in a road accident in April last year.
"The over all compensation thus comes to Rs 35,95,964. In view of the aforesaid R3 (United India Insurance Company Ltd) is directed to deposit with this tribunal the awarded amount of Rs 35,95,964 within 30 days with interest at the rate of 7.5 per cent per annum....," the judge said.
The order came on a petition filed by the father, wife and children of the 45-year-old deceased claiming compensation of Rs 80 lakh.
During the adjudication of the plea, the insurance company had offered a compensation of Rs 25,06,482 to the petitioners.
Kumar had died in a road accident on April 4 last year in Model Town here when his scooter was hit by the rashly driven DTC bus.
An eye-witness to the accident, Shekhar, had told police that he had seen that the DTC bus was being driven in a rash manner and it hit Kumar's scooter due to which he sustained fatal injuries.
The tribunal, in its order, held that since the driver of the DTC bus had failed to contest the petition, "preponderance of probability is that Suresh Kumar died in the road accident on April 4, 2012...After being hit by the offending vehicle which was being driven by R1 (driver) in rash and negligent manner.
