The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday told the Bombay High Court that an ad hoc compensation of Rs 10 lakh would be paid to the parents of two minor boys who died after falling into an open water tank in a civic garden.

A division bench of Justices Gautam Patel and Kamal Khata was informed by BMC counsel Anil Singh that the amount would be paid by the contractor concerned, who was to maintain the garden where the incident took place.