``In a free country like ours, the law must value life and limb on a generous scale,'' and awards should not be 'niggardly', SC said while raising the damages from Rs 52,000 to Rs 2 lakh in the case of a 37-year-old painter from Bangalore who suffered 20% disability including deformity to his right hand in an accident.
'Law must value life and limb on a generous scale'