Grijesh Prasad Yadav & Ors vs Ramjhari Devi & Anr on 16 October, 2009
recorded that the widow was solely dependent on
the income of deceased whereas his sons or
daughters were living separately and they had got
sufficient income to maintain themselves. In that
view of the matter, the Tribunal was perfectly
justified in awarding compensation to the widow,
respondent no. 1. Moreover one could have
understood the meaning of such an objection with
regard to non-joinder of parties at the instance
of legal representatives of deceased as was in the
case of Govind Sao (supra) but such an objection
coming from and raised by the appellants, who have
been held liable to pay the amount of
compensation, must be held to be wholly frivolous.