02 April,2026 05:20 PM IST | Thane | mid-day online correspondent
A copy of the tribunal’s order, dated March 24, was made available on Wednesday. Representational Pic
The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) in Maharashtra's Thane has awarded Rs 36.24 lakh to the parents of a 27-year-old road accident victim, six years after his death.
A copy of the tribunal's order, dated March 24, was made available on Wednesday.
According to the claim petition, the victim, Jitendra Laxman Singh, was riding a motorcycle with a friend near Thane on May 30, 2020, when a tipper truck coming from the wrong side hit the two-wheeler, reported PTI.
Singh lost his balance and fell onto the road, following which the truck ran over him, killing him on the spot.
Tribunal member K P Shrikhande held that the vehicle was being driven negligently and awarded compensation of Rs 36.24 lakh to Singh's parents. At the time of his death, Singh was earning a monthly salary of Rs 24,455 as a customer service associate.
In a similar case, MACT awarded Rs 7.76-lakh compensation to a man who suffered permanent disability in a road accident in 2015. The order, passed on March 25 by Presiding Officer KP Shrikhande, brings relief to the petitioner after a long legal process.
The incident took place on August 28, 2015, near a mosque on the Sion-Kurla Road in Mumbai. Wahid Aziz Khan, then aged 40, was working as a driver.
According to the tribunal's findings, a school bus, driven in a rash and negligent manner, crashed into a tempo. The impact caused the tempo to overturn and fall on Khan, who was offering namaz by the roadside, leaving him and others seriously injured.
After the accident, Khan was rushed to the hospital, where he underwent surgery for fractures to his ribs and shoulder blade. The tribunal accepted that he suffered permanent partial disability and assessed his functional disability at 30 per cent, which affected his ability to work, news agency PTI reported.
The tribunal noted that a criminal case had been registered against the bus driver under the relevant laws. The driver was later charge-sheeted and convicted, which supported the claim of negligence.
It rejected the insurance company's argument that the victim was partly responsible for the accident or that there was a violation of policy conditions. The tribunal observed that no evidence was presented to support these claims.
The bus owner did not appear before the tribunal, and the case was decided ex parte against him.
(With PTI inputs)
