Fourteen years after losing their loved ones, families of victims of the Uphaar theatre fire got a shock on Thursday when the Supreme Court drastically reduced the compensation awarded to them by the Delhi high court in 2003.
This made no sense right?
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A bench of justice RV Raveendran and justice KS Radhakrishnan, which issued a slew of guidelines for theatre owners and government authorities for safe screening of films, also slashed punitive damages imposed by the high court on the Uphaar cinema owners, brothers Gopal Ansal and Sushil Ansal, from Rs 2.5 crore to Rs 25 lakh.
Upholding the right of victims' families to get damages from the Uphaar owners - Ansal Theatre and Clubhotels (P) Ltd - the bench said the family of a victim aged above 20 would get Rs 10 lakh instead of the Rs 18 lakh fixed by the high court. For the families of victims below 20 years, the compensation was reduced from Rs 10 lakh to Rs 7.5 lakh.
However, the compensation of Rs 1 lakh for the injured would remain unchanged.
This made no sense right?
New Delhi - Readability
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A bench of justice RV Raveendran and justice KS Radhakrishnan, which issued a slew of guidelines for theatre owners and government authorities for safe screening of films, also slashed punitive damages imposed by the high court on the Uphaar cinema owners, brothers Gopal Ansal and Sushil Ansal, from Rs 2.5 crore to Rs 25 lakh.
Upholding the right of victims' families to get damages from the Uphaar owners - Ansal Theatre and Clubhotels (P) Ltd - the bench said the family of a victim aged above 20 would get Rs 10 lakh instead of the Rs 18 lakh fixed by the high court. For the families of victims below 20 years, the compensation was reduced from Rs 10 lakh to Rs 7.5 lakh.
However, the compensation of Rs 1 lakh for the injured would remain unchanged.
