IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. FAO No. 2804 of 2005 Date of decision: 04.10.2010 New India Assurance Co. Ltd. ..Appellant Versus Smt. Nimmo Devi & Ors. ..Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN Present: Mr. Vinod Gupta, Advocate for the appellant. None for respondents. **** K.KANNAN, J.(ORAL) 1. The Insurance Company is the appellant challenging the liability, quantum in a case where it had the benefit of defence under Section 170 of the Motor Vehicles Act. 2. The issue of negligence was an admitted fact and the case survived consideration only for ensuring that an appropriate and just compensation had been determined by the Tribunal. The deceased was a Government servant 35 years of age. The claimants were the mother and the brother who, was 28 years of age. The Tribunal had provided for deduction of 50% to his personal expenses and took the contribution to family as at 50% and adopted multiplier of 12 for a period of two years and increased the personal expenses to 2/3rd after the said period. The FAO No. 2804 of 2005 -2- Tribunal then adopted a multiplier of 12. The attempt of the Tribunal was perhaps to provide that the deceased should have married if he had lived on and there would have been a fall in contribution to the mother. The law as now applied through Sarla Verma Versus DTC 2009 ACJ 121 is to provide for a 50% deduction uniformly in case of death of bachelor and adopt a multiplier suitable to the age. If the amount is worked out on such basis, the compensation that would become payable would be even higher than what has been determined by the Tribunal . There is under such circumstances no justification to reduce the award . The appeal filed by the Insurance Company is dismissed. (K. KANNAN) October 04, 2010 JUDGE Poonam(II)