Regular Second Appeal No.160 of 2011 (O&M) 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Regular Second Appeal No.160 of 2011 (O&M) Date of decision:- 09.12.2011 Gurdeep Singh alias Hardeep Singh ....Appellant Vs. Gurdev Kaur and others ....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE A.N. JINDAL ****** Present:- Mr. Rahul Sharma, Advocate, for the appellant. A.N. JINDAL, J (ORAL) The first appellate Court partly allowed the appeal preferred by defendant No.2-appellant (herein referred as the 'appellant') against the judgment dated 03.08.2009 passed by the Civil Judge (Junior Division), Dabwali, while reducing the amount of compensation/damages to ` 1,26,000/- from ` 2,00,000/- as awarded by the trial Court and reduced the rate of interest on the said compensation/damages from 18% per annum to 7.5% per annum from the date of filing of the suit till realization. Besides the statements of eye witnesses, medical evidence and also on the basis of judgment passed by the Criminal Court on 09.04.2004 in case FIR No.55 dated 10.08.2000, under Sections 302, 307, 34 IPC and 25 of Arms Act, Regular Second Appeal No.160 of 2011 (O&M) 2 the accused-defendants were convicted for committing the murder of Makhan Singh son of Kartar Singh. The judgment of the Criminal Court cannot be ignored, whereby the accused were held guilty and convicted for the murder of above said Makhan Singh. As such, there is no force in the arguments raised by learned counsel for the appellant that the trial Court only relied upon the judgment of Criminal Court. Both the Courts below have discussed the evidence while holding the appellant responsible for making payment of damages. The deceased was aged about 19-20 years at the time of his murder and if minimum wages, as prevalent at that time, are taken into consideration, the compensation awarded by the Courts below cannot be said to be on the higher side. No substantial question of law arises for determination by this Court. Dismissed in limine. (A.N.JINDAL) December 09, 2011 JUDGE ajp