8 years after her death, HC backs ₹62 lakh payout to family of Red Chillies employee

The Bombay high court has upheld a compensation of ₹62.2 lakh awarded by the Motor Accidents Claim Tribunal (MACT), Mumbai, to the family of Charu Khandal, a former character animator at Red Chillies Entertainment—Shah Rukh Khan's production house—who sustained severe spinal injuries in a 2012 road accident and died nearly five years later.

- Prateem Rohanekar

MUMBAI:

A bench of justices Girish Kulkarni and Advait Sethna on May 9 said it did not find any perversity, illegality or irregularity in the November 2020 order passed by a tribunal and refused to quash it.

The bench dismissed the petition filed by Cholamandalam MS General Insurance Co. Ltd, challenging the tribunal's order.

Khandal's family, after the accident, had filed a claim for compensation before the Motor Accident Claim Tribunal in June 2014, and the tribunal awarded a compensation of ₹62 lakh in November 2020.