CHENNAI: A city court in Chennai ordered a private insurance company to pay a sum of Rs 16.97 lakh as compensation for the victim’s family. Petitioner D Arumugam of Katpadi, Vellore moved the court of small causes inside the Madras High Court campus seeking compensation for the loss of his father’s life in a road accident.

According to the petitioner counsel, on June 24, 2017, the deceased person Dasarathan was riding his two-wheeler in Tambaram - Maduravoyal bypass road, when a tipper lorry came in the wrong direction hit Dasarathan and he sustained multiple injuries and later died, alleged the counsel. The first respondent A Leela of Sivagangai, owner of the tipper lorry and second respondent New India Assurance company the insurer of the lorry should pay compensation, noted in the petition.