[1] IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT JAIPUR BENCH, JAIPUR JUDGMENT S.B. CIVIL MISC. APPEAL NO. 1450/2004 KUMARI HEMLATA Vs. MUKUL CHAND JAIN & ORS. Date: 13.03.2008. HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K.S. RATHORE Mr. Man Singh for the appellant. Ms. Shruti Dixit and Ms. Firoz Akhtar for the respondents. **** The present appeal under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicle Act, 1988 is filed by the claimant- appellant for seeking enhancement of the award passed by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Bharatpur in Claim Case No. 13/2002 dated 27.05.2004, by which the claim petition filed by the claimant-appellant has been partly allowed and an Award of Rs. 1,60,000/- has been passed in favour of the appellant. The ground taken by the learned counsel for the appellant for enhancement of compensation is that looking to the age of the claimant who being a student and was about 17 years of age at the time of accident but in the accident she sustained number of injuries and ultimately her right leg was amputated and her permanent disability was assessed as 60% by the doctor, therefore, the compensation awarded to the claimant should be enhanced. [2] It is no doubt that due to injuries sustained by the claimant-appellant, her life has become miserable and the routine affairs of the appellant as well as her future and social prospects have been seriously prejudiced and looking to the permanent disability which has been assessed as 60% and considering the fact that the right leg of the appellant has been amputated, the compensation awarded by the Tribunal cannot said to be just and reasonable. In support of his submissions, the learned counsel for the appellant placed reliance on the judgment rendered by this Court in S.B. Civil Misc. Appeal No. 523/1998- Manju Vs. Mahavir Prasad Jain, wherein the girl was 5 years of age and her left leg was amputated and in that case the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal had awarded an amount of Rs. 83,100 and the same was enhanced by this Court to the tune of Rs. 5,00,000/- vide judgment dated 27.11.2001. I have heard rival submissions of the respective parties and carefully gone through the impugned Award dated 27.05.2004 as also the judgment referred by the learned counsel for the appellant. Having considered the settled preposition of law, as the appellant was 17 years of age at the time of accident and due to injuries her right leg has been amputated and she suffered 60% permanent disability, the compensation awarded to the [3] appellant to the tune of Rs. 1,60,000/- cannot said to be just and reasonable and the same is enhanced from Rs. 1,60,000/- to the tune of Rs. 3,00,000/-. The respondent United India Insurance Company Ltd. is directed to make the payment of enhanced compensation amount to the claimant-appellant within a period of two months, failing which the Insurance Company shall be liable to make the payment of the enhanced amount with interest @ 6% p.a. In the result, the civil misc. appeal stands allowed and the impugned Award dated 27.05.2004 passed by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Bharatpur is modified as indicated herein above. (K.S. RATHORE)J. /KKC/