MACT Grants Compensation of Rs 8.25 Lakh to Woman

THANE: The Motor Accident Claim Tribunal (MACT) Thane has granted a compensation of Rs 8.25 lakh to a woman in a 2010 case of accidental death of her son.        

Judge of Session court S Y Kulkarni and MACT member in their judgement delivered recently directed the owner of the bus Javed Khan I Siddiqui and the insurance company Universal Sompo General Insurance Co. Ltd to jointly pay compensation amount to the claimant Sunita G Sonawane (40) of Aktoli village in Bhiwandi taluka of Thane.    

In her claim, Sunita told the court that her son was working as a mason with a Bhiwandi-based contractor and lost his life in a road accident.

She further said in her submission to the court that her son was travelling to Mumbai in a luxury bus which met with an accident and he died.        

The woman claimed that the accident occurred due to rash driving and was a negligence on the part of the driver and made a claim of Rs 5 lakh.        

A case was registered by the Kankavli Police Station against the driver of the bus.      

The judge in his order stated that, based on the deceased's monthly income, the total loss of dependency to the applicant was worked out to the extent of Rs 8.10 lakh, while an additional of Rs 15,000 was granted towards other expenses.

Source: Indian Express

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Techie death: Andhra Pradesh chief justice’s intervention nails friends

HYDERABAD: Six months after two software professionals died in a car accident in Kukatpally, the Cyberabad police told the high court that they already filed a chargesheet against the vehicle owner and another person (both friends of the deceased) for trying to hoodwink the cops by saying that one of the victim was driving the car at the time of accident.

Admitting that the intervention of chief justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta resulted in nabbing the real culprits, Cyberabad police commissioner C V Anand told the court that they had also arrested the car owner, Soumyajit Basu, in the case. The road accident occurred on March 1 this year.

The car had rammed into a tree near the KPHB junction at 3 am after the driver lost control of the vehicle.

Initially, Basu, who was at the wheel at the time of the accident, had forced his friend Neeladri (who as also in the car) to put the blame on Sudip Ghosh, one of the deceased, in their statement to the police.

Basu had even maintained that he was not in the car on that fateful night. The FIR too was registered that way and the police initially believed the theory floated by Soumyajit.

But as luck would have it, chief justice Sengupta received a letter sometime back from Dr Sujit Mukherjee, a professor from Kolkata, whose son Uttiya Mukherjee too died in this accident, describing how Sudip Ghosh was framed.

Chief justice on frequent holidays, traffic curbs

Expressing displeasure over frequent government holidays and traffic blockades in the city, Hyderabad high court chief justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta on Monday summoned top officials and ticked off the government for its failure to provide hassle-free roads to its citizens.Unhappy with traffic curbs in the city on account of Ganesh idols immersion on Monday, the chief justice, along with Justice P V Sanjay Kumar, hauled up advocate general K Ramakrishna Reddy the minute he urged the court to hear to an "urgent" appeal by the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University against a single judge order. "You (Telangana government) declared a holiday today on one hand and want urgent matters to be heard at the same time," said a fuming justice Sengupta. Hassle-free roads: P5 The CJ converted this letter into a public interest litigation and directed the Cyberabad police chief to probe the case and submit a status report to court. Accordingly , police chief C VAnand filed a report on Monday stating that they had filed chargesheets against Soumyajit and his friend Neeladri Ghosh in the 14th metropolitan magistrate court at Miyapur, Cyberabad.

According to the police report, Neeladri Ghosh along with his classmates Sudip Ghosh, Uttiya Mukherjee, Souran Myti, Arpan Mujender and Pushpender Mondal went for a late night party at Soumyajit Basu's Bachupalli residence on February 28 this year. After partying till 3 am in the morning, Soumyajit went to drop Neeladri, Souran, Uttiya and Sudip Ghosh in his car and he accidentally hit a tree at Pragati Nagar at KBHB Colony resulting in the death of Sudip and Uttiya on the spot. Other occupants of the car suffered injuries.

Soumyajit prevailed upon Neeladri to tell cops that it was Sudip who was driving the car when the accident occurred. However, Sudip's parents contested this saying that their son did not even know how to drive a car.

Cyberabad police told the CJ that a chargesheet has been filed against Soumyajit and Neeladri for trying to erase the evidence and mislead the police in the case.

The bench of chief justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta and justice P V Sanjay Kumar posted the case to next week for hearing.

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