🏛️ When Childhood Dreams Meet Legal Reality
🌟 Imagine you're a judge. A 2-year-old child becomes 100% disabled in an auto-rickshaw accident. How do you put a price on a stolen childhood? What's the value of dreams that will never come true?
💡 What You'll Discover:
- 🔍 The "multiplier method" - how courts calculate a child's future earning potential when they have no earnings
- ⚖️ Why age 15 is the magic number that changes everything in compensation calculations
- 🎯 How child labor laws surprisingly influence accident compensation amounts
- 💰 The "notional income" concept - creating imaginary earnings for real justice
🚀 Real Cases Discussed:
- 💎 Divya's Case (1998) - A 2-year-old's 100% disability and the 15x multiplier rule
- ⭐ Master Ayush's Case (2010) - Why a 5-year-old got an 18x multiplier instead of 15x
- 🌟 Meena Devi's Case - How courts doubled statutory income to fight inflation's impact
- 🏛️ Pranay Sethi vs National Insurance (2017) - The landmark judgment that changed everything
🎯 Key Legal Principles Simplified:
- 📊 Motor Vehicle Act Section 168 - The "just compensation" mandate
- 🚫 Child Labor Prohibition Act 1986 - How it affects multiplier selection
- 💡 The Sarla Verma guidelines - Age-based multiplier tables explained
🎙️ This episode transforms complex legal calculations into understandable stories, showing how our justice system tries to balance cold mathematics with human compassion when children's futures hang in the balance!
