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Santosh Devi vs National Insurance Co.Ltd.& Ors on 23 April, 2012

But an observation made by this court, mainly to achieve uniformity and MACT No. 102/13 LRs of Laxmi v Nand Kishore 16 of 21 17 consistency on a socio­economic issue, as contrasted from a legal principle, though a precedent, can be, and in fact ought to be periodically revisited, as observed in Santosh Devi(Supra). We may therefore, revisit the practice of awarding compensation under conventional heads: loss of consortium to the spouse, loss of love, care and guidance to children and funeral expenses. It may be noted that the sum of Rs. 2500/­ to Rs. 10,000/­ in those heads was fixed several decades ago and having regard to inflation factor, the same needs to be increased.
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