Lower income families get a raw Deal

Mangalore: It's official. Families in the high income bracket are indeed getting more compensation than the lower-salaried victims. The legal counsel for Air India on Tuesday settled three claims at Rs 2.27 crore, for families who lost their kin in the air crash of May 22 this year. The counsel had called five families and three claims were processed till late evening.
Abdul Basheer from Jeppu, whose brother Abdul Rehman lost his wife and son, said that two families in the high income group had got Rs 90 lakh each and another family got Rs 47 lakh as the income of the deceased was low.
Though the compensation amount doled out to victims is guided by the Montreal Convention, families during the counselling process found out that higher salaried individuals get more than US $ 1.6 lakh (roughly Rs 76 lakh) than mandated by the Convention.
Abdulla from Kasargod, who lost his 28-year-old son Anwar Sadiq said that in previous sittings the counsel had first offered Rs 42 lakh. "When we objected they raised it to Rs 45 lakh and then Rs 47 lakh, he said.
31/08/10 Stanley G Pinto/Times of India

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