Accepting a nine-year-old boy’s contention that he sustained ‘permanent disability' after being hit by a state-run bus in 2019, a Motor Accidents Claim Tribunal (MACT) in Latur has directed the MSRTC and the driver to pay him a compensation of about Rs 37 lakh. The boy, then three years old, was crossing the road with his sister when he was hit by a Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation bus at Pimpri-Amba village on May 28, 2019.

In a plea filed before the MACT in January 2023, the minor claimed the bus was driven in a “rash and negligent” manner, and sought compensation from the MSRTC as well as the offending driver under the Motor Vehicles Act. He lost all sensation in his right hand due to the accident, thus suffering a 100 per cent permanent disability, it said.