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Thane, Nov 12 (PTI) The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) in Thane has awarded a compensation of Rs 31 lakh to the family of a carpenter who died in 2020 from injuries suffered when a car hit him other people two years earlier.

MACT member R V Mohite, in the judgment on Tuesday, held the driver of the offending car negligent and directed both its owner and insurer to pay the amount.

The claimants’ counsel, SM Pawar, told the tribunal that on August 14, 2018, Manojkumar Shyamnarayan Sharma (38), a carpenter by profession, was walking cautiously on the left side of Upvan-Gandhinagar Road in Maharashtra’s Thane city.

A car allegedly driven rashly and at high speed lost control and struck Sharma, two women, and several motorcycles. Sharma was grievously injured

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