Mr. Justice S. Parvatha Rao, President— This complaint has been preferred by an unfortunate girl of 16 years who was grievously injured by electric shock caused to her by a low- lying over-head High Tension Transmission line passing over the terrace of a flat in Plot No. 10 in Survey No. 586 (part) situated in front of Kondamadugu cross roads in Hyderabad- Warangal Highway near Bibinagar when she happened to be on that terrace at about 3.00 p.m. on 15.7.1993. The High Tension Transmission line, which was responsible for causing the electric shock to the complainant, was not a supply line for the flat in which she happened to be at that time. If a supply line caused the electric shock there would not have been the question whether the complainant was a consumer, at the relevant time, in relation to the A.P. State Electricity Board which is undoubtedly under an obligation to lay High Tension Transmission lines so that there is no possibility whatsoever for such accidents to occur.

2. The learned Counsel for the complainant submits that even though the particular High Tension Electric Transmission line may not be supplying energy to the flat in question it would certainly be the s