 The case is now considered a breakthrough in civil compensation law in India.However, on 13 October 2011, the Supreme Court nearly halved the sum of compensation awarded to victims by the Delhi high court, and slashed punitive damages to be paid by cinema owners, the Ansal brothers, from to .In its final order on August 25, 2015, the Supreme Court modified its earlier order and sentenced the Ansal brothers to a two-year jail term if they failed to pay the families of the victims Rs.30 crore each within three months.