CHANDIGARH: In the abduction and rape case of a minor girl from Faridkot in 2012, the Punjab and Haryana high court on Tuesday directed the convict Nishan Singh and his mother Navjot Kaur to pay Rs 90 lakh compensation to the survivor and her parents. It is perhaps for the first time that the high court has ordered such a huge compensation in a rape case.Both Nishan and his mother, along with eight of their accomplices, were convicted in the rape-and-kidnapping case in 2013 by the sessions court. The division bench of Justice AB Chaudhari and Justice Inderjeet Singh issued the order on the plea of the survivor’s parents for compensation.The bench directed the Faridkot district collector to attach the properties of Nishan and his mother to ensure payment of compensation “within 10 weeks”.The Rs 90 lakh fine, the bench ruled, will be divided between the survivor and her parents — Rs 50 lakh for the survivor and Rs 20 lakh each for her mother and father.“We are aghast to see how a middle-class family of the complainant with two daughters was torn into due to rich rural and urban landholder Nishan Singh’s and his mother’s rowdy and cruel conduct… The pregnancy was required to be terminated and this fact became known to all in the city of Faridkot and also to the community of the victim’s father. Thus, the victim was completely ravaged because of the repeated beastly acts...,” observed the bench.