Overview
- Justice Jitendra Jain, in a Wednesday order, increased the dependants’ compensation to Rs 15.15 lakh in the 2012 Thane bus accident case.
- The court set the victim’s monthly income at Rs 10,000 for calculation, finding no proof for a higher figure and revising the tribunal’s Rs 8,000 assessment.
- It affirmed 50% contributory negligence on the deceased for crossing away from a signal and noted he should have sought help given his paralysis and Parkinson’s.
- The order told pedestrians to follow signals even when the road looks clear and to cross only at designated points.
- It asked traffic police to act firmly against two-wheeler riders who run signals, in a case titled Vasanti Satish Joshi vs Thane Municipal Transport Corporation that arose from a 2012 accident and a 2016 tribunal award.