Whether agricultural labourer can be treated as self employed person for the purpose of grant of future prospects under motor accident claim petition?

[Educator]

Admittedly, the deceased was an agricultural labourer. Learned Counsel for the MSRTC has first tried to submit that an agricultural labourer neither fits into the category of self employed nor being on a fixed salary, and therefore, the concept of future prospects cannot be applied. She has also sought to invoke the dictionary meaning of the word 'self employed'. Firstly, no doubt, self