{"id":94352,"date":"2026-02-27T17:36:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/bombay-hc-directs-msrtc-to-pay-rs-50-lakh-to-widow-of-employee-who-died-of-covid-19-while-on-duty\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T17:36:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:36:48","slug":"bombay-hc-directs-msrtc-to-pay-rs-50-lakh-to-widow-of-employee-who-died-of-covid-19-while-on-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/bombay-hc-directs-msrtc-to-pay-rs-50-lakh-to-widow-of-employee-who-died-of-covid-19-while-on-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombay HC directs MSRTC to pay Rs 50 lakh to widow of employee who died of Covid-19 while on duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bombay High Court has ordered the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) to pay Rs 50 lakh compensation to the widow of an employee who died of Covid-19. The court ruled that the deceased, Bapu Jagtap, contracted the virus while performing his duty at the risk of his life, rejecting MSRTC&#8217;s claim that he was not assigned essential services.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bombay High Court has ordered the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) to pay Rs 50 lakh compensation to the widow of an employee who died of Covid-19. The court ruled that the deceased, Bapu Jagtap, contracted the virus while performing his duty at the risk of his life, rejecting MSRTC&#8217;s claim that he&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/bombay-hc-directs-msrtc-to-pay-rs-50-lakh-to-widow-of-employee-who-died-of-covid-19-while-on-duty\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bombay HC directs MSRTC to pay Rs 50 lakh to widow of employee who died of Covid-19 while on duty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":94353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}