Travel Agencies Asked To Pay 50 Lakh After Client Loses Wife, Son In Accident

Premier travel agencies Thomas Cook and Red Apple Travel have been ordered to pay Rs. 50 lakh to a Delhi man who lost his wife, son and father-in-law in an accident during a visit to Sri Lanka. Kanupuriya Saigal, who died in the December 2019 accident, was a former journalist and news anchor with NDTV. Her son Shreya Saigal and father, famous Hindi litterateur Ganga Prasad Vimal, had died with her when the van they were travelling in collided with a container truck in Colombo. The 52-year-old driver of the van was also killed in the accident.