Regular Second Appeal No.142 of 2011 (O&M) 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Regular Second Appeal No.142 of 2011 (O&M) Date of decision:- 09.12.2011 Gurdeep Singh alias Hardeep Singh ....Appellant Vs. Paramjit 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) First Appellate Court vide judgment dated 03.06.2010, partly allowed the appeal preferred by defendant No.2-appellant (herein referred as the 'defendant No.2') against the judgment dated 07.09.2009 passed by the trial Court & decreed the suit of the plaintiff-respondent Nos. 1 to 5 (herein referred as the 'plaintiffs') for recovery of ` 2,00,000/- along with interest at the rate of 7.5% per annum. Still aggrieved, the defendant No.2 has come up in appeal. Heard. 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.142 of 2011 (O&M) 2 the accused-defendants were convicted for committing the murder of Boota Singh alias Mangu 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 Boota 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 33/34 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