Sachin Kumar Alias Sachin Goyal v. Reliance General Insurance Co. Ltd And Others

This Court, in United India Insurance Company Limited vs. Poonam Devi and others, FAO-6400-2023, decided on 04.11.2024, while assessing the notional income of a homemaker, observed as under :- " This Court in the case of United India Insurance Co. Ltd vs. Sube Singh and others, passed in FAO No. 218-2014 while dealing with the issue of income of homemaker for the purpose of compensation under MACT held as under:- "while dismissing the appeal filed by the Insurance Company against the award of the Tribunal wherein the Tribunal took the income of a house wife at Rs.9000/- per month, held that to tag a house wife as skilled labour alone does not do complete justice to her multifarious role as home manager. House wife is something more than mere skilled worker and it would not be unreasonable to estimate contribution of deceased at higher figure. The SLP filed against the said judgment has also been dismissed.

12. Thus, income of the deceased, who was a homemaker has to be assessed at Rs.10,000/- per month. An element of 40% future prospects needs to be added. Thus, in the considered opinion of this Court even if the compensation awarded by the Tribunal is

recalculated it would not make substantial difference in the same quantitatively."