HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE CHHATTISGARH : BILASPUR (DIVISION BENCH) CORAM : Hon’ble Shri SR. Nayak, CJ G Hon’ble Shri Satish K. Agnihotri, J. Misc. Appeal No. 533 OF 2005 APPELLANTS 1. Premlal Gond, S/o Suklal CLAEMANTE» Aged 45 years, 2. Smt. Kamla Bai, W/o Premlal Gond , Aged 40 years, Both R/o Village Banspahad P.S. Bertalab, Post Bagarkasa TahSil Dongargarh, District - Rajnandgaon (0G,) Versus RESPONDENTS 1. Permanand Verma S/o. Jagnnuram Verma Aged about 25 years, R/o Village- Pithepani, Post - Bagarkasa, P.S. Bagnadi, District Rajnandgaon , (C.G.) 2. Branch Manager National insurance Com. Ltd. Kamthi Line, Rajnandgaon (C.G.) Present: Mr. Goutam Khetrapal, learned counsel for the appellants. Mr. Sanjay K. Agrawai, learned standing counsel for respondent No.2. .«. a ORAL ORDER (Passed on 2"a of December 2005) The following Order of the Court was passed by SR. Nayak, CJ: While ass‘ailing the correctness of the impugned award the contention of the learned counsel for the appellants was that the deceased was fifteen years of age on the date of accident and the age of the parents r“ r A - mother and father was 40 years and 45 years respectivety. and therefore, the MACT cught to have applied multiplier 15 in terms of O Second Schedule for the purpose of assessing loss of dependency. lt was also contended that the Tribunal is not justified 'in not awarding any compensation under the heads of ‘loss of filial love‘ and 'loss to estate'. The grievance of the appellants is justified. lf we take the age of the deceased or average age of the parents for assessing loss of dependency, appropriate multiplier is 15, not 12. If we apply multiplier of V 15, total loss of dependency would come to Rs.1,50,000l-. Further, we award a sum of Rs.20,000/- towards ‘loss of filial love’ and another Rs.20,000/~ towards‘loss to estatef . (2) in the result, we award total compensation of Rs.1,92,000/— under the following heads: with interest @ 6% per annum from the date of claim petition till payment. Accordingly, we allow the appeal in part and in substitution of the impugned award we award total compensation of Rs.1,92,000/—. Parties 9»: W4 (i) Loss of dependency : 150.000]- (ii) Loss of filial love : 20,000]- (iii) Loss to estate 20,000/— (iv) Funeral expenses : 2,000/— Total : 1,92,000/- Sha" bear their respective costs in this appeal. Sdj- ‘ Sdl P:gnihotri Chief Justice Satish K. Judge