Kochi: A petition requesting the Kerala High Court to review its earlier order giving Air India (AI) a free hand in settling the compensation for Mangalore air crash was dismissed on Thursday.
On August 25th a division bench headed by Justice CN Ramachandran and Justice PS Gopinathan had quashed the earlier single bench order asking AI to pay Rs 75 lakh as compensation for each of the deceased, while dismissing another appeal by relatives who maintained that the Rs 75 lakh compensation ordered to each of them was not enough.
Only seven passengers survived after an AI Express flight from Dubai with 166 passengers crashed after overshooting the runway at Mangalore's Bajpe airport in May last year.
The review petition was filed by Arikkad Abdul Salam from Kumble, whose son died in the accident, after the division bench not only declined their contention that Rs 75 lakh is the minimum compensation but also declared invalid the single bench order that ordered for Rs 75 lakh to be paid as compensation.
30/09/11 Mahir Haneef/Times of India
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