Thane: MACT awards Rs 56 lakh to kin of cop killed in accident

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A Motor Vehicles Accident Tribunal in Maharashtra's Thane district awarded a compensation of over Rs 56 lakh to the family of a policeman who died in a road accident in 2016. The 47-year-old head constable attached to the Thane rural police was travelling on the Mumbai-Nashik Highway when his police jeep rammed into a stationary trailer parked on the road in the dark.

MACT member R N Rokade ordered the two opponents, the owner of the offending trailer and the insurer Reliance General Insurance Company, to make the payment to the claimants with seven per cent interest from the date on which the claim was filed.

The order issued on March 12 was made available on March 17. Appearing for the deceased policeman's family, who are the claimants, advocate H P Patil told the tribunal that Pramod Nivtkar, was serving as a head constable with Vashind police station and earned a salary of Rs 46,682, and he was the sole bread winner in the family.

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