Chennai: The Principal Special Court under Essential Commodities and Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (EC and NDPS Act), Chennai, has directed Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC), Villupuram,
to pay a compensation of Rs 23.93 lakh to parents of a 21-year-old worker, who died in a road accident, caused by a TNSTC bus.
In the petition J. Lakshmi submitted that her son J. Saravanan was working as a fitter in a private company and earning a salary of Rs 15,000 per month. On November 2, 2013, at about 12.00 hours Saravanan, was riding his motor-cycle from Chennai to Puducherry.
A TNTC bus was driven in a rash and negligent manner endangering public safety. The bus was proceeding on the opposite direction and on the wrong side of East Coast Road. The bus rammed into the two-wheeler at Pooncheri junction near Mamallapuram on ECR. Saravanan sustained serious fatal injuries and died. The Mamallapuram police station filed a case against the driver.
She said the bus driver was solely responsible for the accident.
Denying the allegation, the MD, TNSTC, said the petition was devoid of merits and facts. The MD also denied that the bus driver was rash and negligent at the time of accident and caused the accident. The two-wheel rider was solely responsible for the accident.
Principal Special Judge K. Ayyappan held that the accident was caused by TNSTC bus. Hence, parents of Saravanan are liable to receive a compensation of Rs 23.98 lakh along with an interest of 7.5 per cent per annum from March 2014.
