1. Two children of the petitioners were enrolled as students of Kasturiba Residential School for Girls (Kasturiba Gandhi Balikala Gurukula Vidyalayam), Dahegaon, Adilabad District for the academic year 2006-2007. On the intervening night of 21/22.08.2006 they died as they were victims of snake bite. The report of the postmortem discloses that the death occurred due to the snake bite. The Special Officer of the School filed a complaint in the Dahegaon Police Station complaining about death of two children due to snake bite and the same was registered as Crime No. 53 of 2006. In the final report, police have shown the cause of death as snake bite. This Writ Petition is filed by the petitioners claiming compensation for the death of their children caused on account of negligence of the respondents.

2. Heard Sri S.Chandra Sekhar, learned counsel appearing for petitioners, Sri G.Bhaskar, learned Standing Counsel for Rajiv Vidya Mission (SSA), for second respondent, Sri Bhupal Reddy, learned Standing Counsel for 5th respondent and learned Government Pleader for Home (TG) for 6th respondent.

3.1. Counsel appearing for petitioners submits that the 5th respondent-School was located