The doctor certified her 90% disabled, but a bench held that she was suffering from 100% functional disability

NEW DELHI: Holding that functional disability faced by a road accident victim should be the deciding factor for granting compensation and not doctor-certified medical disability, SC has granted compensation of Rs 83.3 lakh to a minor who met with an accident when she was just six months old and is now suffering from severe spinal cord and neurological injuries.

Such injuries alter the entire course of the child's existence and affect every subsequent stage of her life. The law, therefore, cannot evaluate claims involving injured children through the same lens that may ordinarily be applied in cases involving adults," it said.