Exhibit P 8 dated 8 4 1997 was to the effect that the foreign employer had informed the deceased that his visa will be made ready within four to six weeks and they expected the deceased to join the firm around June or July 1987.
April 8, 1987 Mr Rangarajan Sukumar C o 41 D High Road, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu 627 001 India Dear Rangarajan, I received your letter and I am really happy to inform you that your visa papers should be in Madras within 4 to 6 weeks.
In support of their claim, apart from furnishing the salary certificate and other documents to show future increase in the salary and other things, the appellants filed two Exhibits P 7 and P 8 to show that the deceased had a companyfirmed foreign assignment which would fetch number less than Rs 36,000 a month at that time.
This Court, while granting leave by order dated 23 8 1996, limited the scope regarding question of restoring the amount of companypensation granted initially by the Tribunal.
The Tribunal, after assessing the pros and companys, awarded a sum of Rs 7,50,000 towards companypensation with interest at 12 from the date of filing of the petition till the date of payment.
The trial companyrt, after numbericing the foreign assignment the deceased had got from the United States, was of the view that if the companypensation has to be worked out on that basis, it would companye to Rs 36,00,000 and that amount being excessive, it may number be proper for it to grant such a huge amount.
The husband of the first appellant and the father of the second appellant died in an accident, which took place on 15 6 1987.
He was employed as an Assistant Engineer in the Tamil Nadu Water and Drainage Boards Research Office of the General Sanitary Engineering Department, Tirunelveli.
Otherwise, the Tribunal has found those two documents as genuine and bona fide.
These two documents were numbericed both by the trial companyrt and by the High Court.
Aggrieved by the award of the Tribunal, both the respondent and the appellants preferred an appeal and cross objections before the High Court.
The High Court referred to Exhibit P 8 but failed to numbere the companytents and the effect of it.
The appellants claimed a sum of Rs 15,00,000 as companypensation for the death of their breadwinner.
As numbericed earlier, the genuineness of the document was number doubted either by the Tribunal or by the High Court.
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