Rs 2 crore and Rs 1 crore awarded to kin in separate road mishap claims in Maharashtra

Thane: A Lok Adalat in Thane on Saturday settled a motor accident claim, awarding compensation of Rs 2.1 crore to the family of a software engineer who died in a road accident on the Mumbai–Pune Expressway. The Lok Adalat also settled another accident claim, and awarded a compensation of Rs 1 crore to the family of an assistant security manager who was killed in a road accident in 2024, a court official said on Sunday. These were among the 83,424 cases settled, wherein settlements collectively worth Rs 187 crore were facilitated on Saturday. Omkar Joshi, a software engineer employed with a private automation company, was travelling with his colleague, when a speeding car rammed into their vehicle, leading to his death. The matter was settled through mediation, with the insurance company agreeing to pay the compensation to the victim's legal heirs. In the second case, assistant security manager Anand Rajan Nadar was going on a motorcycle from his residence in Thane city to his workplace at Padgha in the Bhiwandi area. A speeding tempo coming out of a petrol pump crashed into his motorcycle. Nadar was rushed to a hospital in Bhiwandi where he was declared dead.Around 101 benches were constituted across the district, which took up over 5 lakh matters. Of these, 54,591 pre-litigation matters and 28,833 pending cases were disposed of. "Among the disputes resolved, electricity bill disputes accounted for the highest at over 2.6 lakh cases, while 3,966 bank recovery matters saw collective settlements worth more than Rs 62 crore. The MACT alone accounted for over Rs 35 crore in settlements," said a statement issued by the TDLSA. (With inputs from PTI)