LARGER SC BENCH TO EXAMINE ISSUE IN MISHAP CLAIMS

The Supreme Court has referred to a larger bench the question of how the income of a person working abroad should be assessed for calculating compensation in road accident cases in India, noting that there are conflicting judicial views on whether to consider the deceased's foreign salary in full or reduce it to reflect Indian living standards.

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A bench of justices Rajesh Bindal and Manmohan said the issue had become increasingly important as a growing number of Indians, particularly in information technology (IT) and specialised professions, were employed overseas and sending money back home. "With changes in the level of earnings in the last decades, a lot of IT graduates/professionals and