"What is worrying in this case is that a lot of issues and questions have remained unanswered. By this curative petition, our endeavour is to elicit such answers. I think for all practical purposes, this court will proceed to assume the culmination of the welfare commissioner's proceedings to be correct and valid for having a second look at the whole settlement," he said. Venkataramani clarified he is not seeking to challenge the settlement already arrived at but wants more compensation for the victims of the tragedy. The bench said the government cannot do this by invoking the curative jurisdiction of the court and, if it wants to enhance the compensation, then it could avail the remedy of suit. Justice Khanna said in the earlier settlement, there were fundamental assumptions and there were calculations with respect to compensation. "If you unilaterally decide to change it (settlement), because someone feels that the compensation should be enhanced 26-30 years down the line, can that be a fundamental basis for changing it," he said, adding it doesn't take 26-30 years to redo the compensation figures.