SC directs for Rs 7.64 crore compensation to Mangalore plane crash victim’s family
The Supreme Court has awarded Rs 7.64 crore compensation to the family members of a 45-year old man who got killed in the crash of Air India Express Flight 812 from Dubai in Mangaluru on May 22, 2010.
A total of 158 people of the 166 passengers on board perished in the accident.
On a plea by Triveni Kodkany, wife of deceased Mahendra Kodkany, a bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Ajay Rastogi disagreed with the reasonings of the NCDRC in making a deduction from the salary of the victim while calculating the compensation.
The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) had granted the wife, daughter, and son of the deceased Rs 7.35 crore as compensation.
