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Shankar Dutt v. United India Insurance: a carpenter's skill, 100% functional disability, and the cost of a prosthetic leg over a lifetime

The Supreme Court enhanced a carpenter's motor-accident compensation to ₹35,95,923, holding that a skilled artisan's notional income cannot be pegged to minimum wages, that functional disability (100%) — not the 70% medical figure — governs loss of earning capacity, and that future prosthetic-limb costs must be quantified over the injured's lifetime.