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K. RANGA RAO, R. S. RAJESHREE
Assistant Divisional Engineer, Operation – Appellant
Versus
Katamoni Shivarani – Respondent
ORDER
K. Ranga Rao, Member.—This Appeal is filed by the Appellants/Opposite parties U/s.15 of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986, praying this State Commission to allow the appeal and to set aside the impugned order of the District Forum, Mahabubnagar, passed in CC. No. 55/2013 dt.25.10.2018 and consequently to dismiss the complaint.
2. For the sake of convenience, the parties are referred to as arrayed in the complaint. The Appellants 1 to 3 herein, were Opposite Parties1 to 3 and the Respondents 1 and 2 in this appeal were the Complainants in CC 55/2013 before the District Forum.
3. The brief facts of complaint are as follows:-
The deceased Katamoni Anjaneyulu who was the husband of the Complainant No.1, was working as Hitachi Operator. On 02-06-2012 afternoon at 12:00 p.m, he went to his cousin brothers’ house at Indrakal village, Tadoor mandal to attend to Satyanarayana Vratham. Thereafter, he went to the house of Yadamma who is his relative. The house of Yadamma has the Electric service connection bearing.SC No. 140800234 in the name of Rajamoni Sekhar, who is her husband. While the deceased Katamoni Anjaneyulu was putting his cell phone to charging, accidentally got electrocu
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