Kulwinder Kaur vs Parshant Sharma 2025 INSC 950 - Motor Accident Compensation - Future Prospects In Foreign Country

Motor Accident Compensation - Future Prospects - Assessing the ‘future prospects’ of a person selfemployed in a foreign country like United States, compared to a person in this country, would become difficult for the simple reason that the socio-economic-political conditions in any foreign country would be different. Even as this Court is not oblivious to the said aspect, in order to determine the just compensation to a person who died in an accident occurred in India, the dictum of law in National Insurance Company v. Pranay Sethi shall have to be followed and applied specially when no material evidence is offered to determine the future prospects in the foreign country. Accordingly, the Court is inclined to extend the benefit of future prospects’ component for the compensation payable as per the principles in Pranay Sethi (supra).