Lachhman Singh And Ors. vs Gurmit Kaur And Ors. on 12 October, 1978
The compensation payable to the parents would, of course, depend upon various factors like age and health of the minor child as also that of her parents, their position and status in life, both in the context of their expectations from their child as also what they would have provided to the child in her up-bringing and education and what consequently the child could be expected to make of herself in life and what the cost thereof would have been to her parents. There are also the other imponderables too as set-forth in Full Bench in Lachhman Singh v. Gurmit Kaur, (1989) 81 Pun LR 1: (AIR 1979 Punj & Har 50) in so far as they are relevant in dealing with the matter relating to compensation payable to the parents in respect of the death of their minor children.