FAO No. 492 of 2011 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA, CHANDIGARH FAO No. 492 of 2011 Date of decision May 12, 2011 Indira Rani and others ....... Appellants Versus Gurinder Kumar and others ........Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN Present:- Ms. Maninder Kaur, Advocate for Mr. G. S. Sandhu, Advocate for the appellants. **** 1. Whether reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? No 2. To be referred to the reporters or not? No 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the digest?No K. Kannan, J (oral). 1. The appeal is for enhancement of compensation for death of a person aged about 50 years and the claimants were widow and children. The Tribunal took the income of the deceased at `5,000/- adopted a multiplier of 12 and added towards conventional heads of claim `10,000/- to determine a compensation of `4,90,000/-. Learned counsel states that if the deceased was 50 years the appropriate multiplier must have been 13. The age of 50 years was taken as what was seen in the postmortem report and the Tribunal therefore assumed that he must have been 50 plus to take the multiplier of 12. There was no definite proof of age and the Tribunal was making approximation based on the postmortem certificate. I will not find the choice of multiplier of 12 to be erroneous. The FAO No. 492 of 2011 2 argument that conventional heads of claim were not appropriately awarded cannot also be accepted for the amount awarded is still larger than what is provided under Schedule-II for loss of consortium, loss of estate and funeral expenses. The over all compensation of `4,90,000/- was therefore, justified. I find no reason to interfere. 2. The award is confirmed and the appeal is dismissed. (K. KANNAN) JUDGE May 12, 2011 archana