Court Relief For Father Of Mumbai Accident Victim In Vegetative State
NDTV
The accident took place on May 28, 2017, when Nidhi Jethmalani (17 years old at the time) was crossing the road near Marine Drive in south Mumbai when a car knocked her down. She suffered serious injuries and has been in a vegetative state ever since.
The Bombay High Court has permitted the father of a girl in a vegetative state after a road accident to withdraw Rs 1.15 crore deposited in court by the Western Railways that owned the errant vehicle, pending hearing of the appeal filed in the case.
A division bench of Justices Gautam Patel and Gauri Godse in an interim order passed on October 6 observed that it cannot view such matters with the "clinical coldness" of a civil suit.
A copy of the order was made available on Tuesday.
The court was hearing an appeal filed by the senior section engineering, Signal Construction of the Western Railway that owned the vehicle involved in the accident, challenging a February 2021 order passed by the Motor Accidents Claim Tribunal awarding compensation of Rs 69,92,156 to Nidhi Jethmalani.
