Veteran actor JagathySreekumar will be awarded accident compensation Rs.5.9 crore from the insurance company after the two sides reached an agreement. As per the reports, Jagathy's wife Sobha had filed a petition before the Motor Accident Claim Tribunal (MACT) court for a sum of Rs.10.90 crore, later raised to Rs.13 crore. The actor was seriously injured in a road accident on March 10, 2012 near Kozhikode, while he was travelling to a shooting location on the Kerala-Karnataka border.
Since then he has been confined to a wheel chair and is yet to recover his voice.