Couple die waiting for accident compensation in son’s death case
An elderly couple passed away shortly after the Punjab and Haryana High Court increased the compensation for their son's death in a 2001 accident. The case highlights the significant delays in the Indian judicial system that often prevent victims' families from receiving timely justice.
Why it matters
It underscores the human cost of judicial backlog and the failure of the legal system to provide timely relief to grieving families.
Hisar: The compensation they had waited years for finally came through, but the parents who fought for it were no longer alive to receive the relief.In a poignant case highlighting the human cost of delayed justice, the Punjab and Haryana high court enhanced compensation for the death of their son, Shakti Singh, more than two decades after the accident. However, the petitioners, Jaiprakash and his wife Parmeshwari Devi, Shakti Singh’s parents, are no longer alive to enjoy the fruits of justice.While Jaiprakash died in 2014, Parmeshwari Devi passed away just five or six days after the verdict.Senior advocate Jagbir Dalal said Shakti was returning home on his bicycle on March 15, 2001, when a van belonging to Maharaja Agrasen Medical Education and Research Society hit him from behind near the fish-breeding centre on the Sirsa road in Hisar.The van was being driven by the Society’s driver, Shivnath.
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