( 1 ) BY this writ application the petitioners have claimed compensation of a sum of Rs. 50 lacs on account of the death of one Satish Chandra Samanta since deceased, resulted in electrocution owing to alleged negligence on the part of the respondent No. 1 and/or its officials.

( 2 ) THE fact of the case as it runs in the petition, in gist is stated hereunder : the said deceased was late father of petitioner Nos. 1, 3, 4 and 5 and late husband of the petitioner No. 2. He was the absolute owner of the property bearing Dag Nos. 604 and 609 appertaining to Khatian Nos. 763/ 3 and 763/4 under Mouza Chautara within the Dhaniakhali Police Station in the district of Hooghly. He along with the aforesaid members of the family till his death had been residing at the said plot of land in a small house built on a portion thereof. He got electric connection for running a shallow-tube well given by respondent No. 1. His complaint was that without his consent from the point of his aforesaid electric connection an overhead electric line was drawn to give supply line to the other villagers. The said supply line was drawn without keeping minimum horizontal distance over hi