New Delhi, Mar 5 (UNI) The Supreme Court has awarded a compensation of ₹9.64 crore to the family of Lakshmi Nagalla, a US-based software engineer who died in a road accident in 2009 due to the rash and negligent driving of a state transport bus.
A bench comprising Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra overturned a Telangana High Court judgment reducing the compensation from ₹8.03 crore, as fixed by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT), Secunderabad, to ₹5.75 crore. Shyam Prasad Nagalla and others, the husband and daughters of the deceased, filed the appeal.
The matter pertains to an accident on June 13, 2009, when Lakshmi Nagalla, aged 43, was travelling with her family in a Honda Car from Annavaram to Rajahmundry when a bus owned by the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation collided with their car near Prathipadu.