IN THE HIGH COAURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT

CHANDIGARH.

R.S.A.No.1947 of 2002

Date of Decision : 04.03.2008.

1. State of Haryana through Secretary Deptment of Forest of

Wild Life, Chandigarh.

2. Collector, Panchkula.

....Appellants.

Versus

Parmanand son of Shri Uday Ram, resident of village Chaila,

Tehsil Kalka, District Panchkula.

....Respondent

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Present: Mr.L.aR.Nanda, Assistant Advocate General, Haryana,

for the appellants.

Sh.Bhag Singh, Advocate, for respondent.

Rakesh Kumar Jain (J)

This appeal has been brought by the defendants

against the judgment decree of Lower Appellate Court dated

31.01.2002, who had modified the decree of Trial Court and

awarded Rs.1,00,000/- as compensation for the death of Mohan

Lal, alongwith interest @ 9% per annum from the date of decree

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of the Trial Court till the date of realization.

Shorn of unnecessary details, the brief facts of the

case are that Mohan Lal, son of the plaintiff, was a student of 7^th

class and was studying in a school at Morni. On 10.08.1989,

while he was going to his school alongwith his cousin Yad Ram

on a public passage, they were attacked by a leopard who

carried away both Mo