JUDGMENT JITENDRA CHAUHAN, J. The present appeal has been preferred by the claimant appellants, seeking enhancement of the amount of compensation awarded vide impugned award dated 21.08.1999, passed by the learned Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Rohtak (for short, 'the Tribunal'). There is no assistance on behalf of the appellants, however, it has been pleaded in the appeal that the deduction and multiplier have been wrongly applied. The amount awarded under the other heads is also on the lower side. On the other hand, the learned counsel for the respondent Insurance Company has vehemently opposed the present appeal. I have heard the learned counsel for the parties and perused the record. It is evident from the record that deceased, Gurdarshan Singh, was 45 years of age at the time of his death in the accident. The learned Tribunal has applied the multiplier of 8, after taking into consideration the fact that the claimant wife is drawing Rs.8,000/per month as family pension. However, this finding being erroneous, is set aside and keeping in view law laid down in Smt. Sarla Verma Vs. DTC (2009) 6 SCC 121 , the multiplier of 14 is applied in the instant case. Furthermore, the claimants being five in number, the deduction is decreased from 1/3rd to 1/4th. The learned Tribunal has not awarded any compensation towards future prospects of the deceased. Therefore, keeping in view the law laid down in Rajesh and others Vs. Rajbir Singh and others, (2013) 9 SCC 54 , an increase of 30% is ordered towards future prospects of the deceased. In this way, the amount of compensation under the head dependency comes to Rs.1,51,304/+ 30% X ¾ X 14 = Rs.20,65,298/as against the amount of Rs.8,06,960/awarded by the learned Tribunal. Furthermore, keeping in view the law laid down by Hon'ble the Supreme Court in Rajesh's case (supra), an amount of Rs.1,00,000/, is awarded towards 'loss of consortium' to the widow, whereas, Rs.5,000/is awarded under the head 'funeral expenses'. Furthermore, keeping in view the law laid down in Vimal Kanwar and others Vs. Kishore Dan and others, (20133) PLR 776, an amount of Rs.1,00,000/, is awarded to the children of the deceased for loss of love, care and guidance.
Furthermore, keeping in view the law laid down in Vimal Kanwar and others Vs. Kishore Dan and others, (20133) PLR 776, an amount of Rs.1,00,000/, is awarded to the children of the deceased for loss of love, care and guidance. In view of the above, the claimant appellants are held entitled to the enhanced compensation of Rs.14,63,338/[Rs.12,58,338/(enhancement towards loss of dependency) + Rs.5,000/(funeral expenses) + Rs.1,00,000/(loss of consortium, payable to the wife of the deceased) + Rs.1,00,000/(loss of love, care and guidance, payable to the children in equal shares)] as indicated above, over and above the amount already awarded by the learned Tribunal, which shall be payable amount within a period of three months from today, failing which, they shall also be entitled to interest @ 7.5% per annum, from the date of filing the present appeal, till its realization. With the aforesaid modification in the impugned award, the present appeal is partly allowed.