Srinagar, Aug. 22 -- The Additional District Judge Srinagar Thursday awarded Rs 16.60 lakhs compensation to a family from downtown, for the death of its 20-year-old member in a blast at an Exhibition Grounds in 1986.

The suit for compensation was filed by one Mohammad Yousuf Shah (now dead) before the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir in 1986, and was subsequently transferred to the 2nd Additional District Judge, Srinagar, by an order dated July 14, 1995.

In the suit, Shah, subsequently represented by his legal heirs, including his wife and children, pleaded that his 20-year-old son, Avis Ahmed, died of severe injuries sustained in a blast at the exhibition arranged by the government at the Exhibition Ground (Numaishgah) in Srinagar during ...