In a case where the onus for the bike crash that took place 26 years ago was put on the dead pillion rider, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has criticised a MACT decision reducing the payout to his family and said he couldn’t be faulted by any “stretch of imagination”. Justice Amarinder Singh Gerewal was hearing the plea of the man’s family against an order of the MACT. “This court finds it completely incomprehensible that the tribunal has somehow attributed fault or liability to the victim,” the court said on May 26. The court continued, “by no stretch of imagination or physical possibility can a person sitting on the rear seat be held responsible for an overtaking maneuver or a sudden turn executed by the driver.” Justice Amarinder Singh Grewal held that the victim was merely riding as a pillion passenger on the two-wheeler, and the entire physical control of the vehicle was in the hands of the driver.…