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The judgment by a Division Bench comprising Justice S. K. Mahajan and Justice Mukul Mudgal came after seven long years of marathon hearings on a civil writ petition by Neelam Krishnamurthy, convener of the Association of Victims of Uphaar Tragedy (AVUT). The family of each dead minor would get Rs. 15 lakhs while the family of each dead adult would get Rs. 18 lakhs. The Ansals were directed to bear 55 per cent of the compensation amount and the remaining liability of 45 per cent would be shared equally by the then Delhi Vidyut Board, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and the DCP (Licensing) of the Delhi Police, the Bench said in its 200-page judgment. It also imposed punitive damages of Rs. 2.5 crores on the Ansals for adding extra seats illegally in the hall saying they ought to pay the damages as they had earned the said amount by selling tickets for the unauthorised seats between 1979-96. The compensation amount and the punitive damages should be paid within two months of the judgment with 9 per cent interest from July 1997, when the AVUT filed the writ petition.
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