: Thursday, March 18, 2021, 12:40 AM IST
Mumbai: MACT orders â¹20 lakh payout to kin of 26-year-old handcart puller who died after truck mishap
A Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) in Mumbai has ordered a truck owner and an insurance company to pay a compensation of over Rs. 20 lakh to the young widow, six-year-old son and the parents of a 26-year-old labourer who had succumbed to injuries in 2016 after being knocked down by a truck in Mazgaon.
The claimants had sought compensation of Rs. 10 lakhs. As per the claim, on October 17, 2016, the deceased Pankaj Kumar was pulling a handcart loaded with aluminium pipes along with other labourers around 2.15 PM on Container Road near Eastern Express Freeway at Mazgaon. As per the FIR registered at Sewri police station, a rashly-driven truck hit them. Another labourer died before admission to the hospital. Kumar died during treatment.