JALESHWARI DEVI Vs. JHARKHAND STATE ELECTRICITY BOARD

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD J.C. to Sri R.S.Mazumdar, learned counsel for the petitioner and J.C. to Mrs. I. Sen Choudhary, learned counsel for the respondent Electricity Board.

(2.) WITH the consent of the learned counsel for the parties, this case is taken up for final disposal at the stage of admission.

(3.) THE case of the petitioner is that on 12.06.2002 about 4 A.M., the petitioners husband had accidentally come in contact with a loosely hanging 440 volt live electric cable which was hanging on the ground after having snapped overhead. As a result, he suffered death. A U.D. case was registered at the police station on 12.06.2002. The postmortem report had confirmed that the death was on account of electrocution.