The Chandigarh Administration has failed to pay Rs 1.5 crore compensation to the kin of the victims of the 2022 Carmel Convent School tree tragedy, even as the Punjab and Haryana High Court on September 29 castigated it for “lack of empathy and sensitivity” and ordered it to pay relief.

On July 8, 2022, when students were eating lunch under a massive a 250-year-old heritage peepal (sacred fig) tree in the absence of a dining hall or safe shelter, a huge branch snapped and crashed onto them around 11.30 am, killing a 16-year-old Class X student, Heerakshi, and grievously injuring 18 of her school mates, with one of the injured students losing her arm.

In a blistering 41-page order on September 29, Justice Kuldeep Tiwari directed that Rs 1 crore be given to the family of a student killed i

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