BHARGAVA, J. This is an appeal against the judgment and decree dated 30th October, 1964, of the Senior Civil Judge No. 2 Jaipur City.

2. Smt. Krishna Kumari the plaintiff in the suit is the wife of Zabar Singh, an Upper Division Clerk of the Accountant Generals Office, Rajasthan who was allotted quarter No.G88 in Bajajnagar, Jaipur, for his residence in August, 1960. Thi9 quarter belonged to the Union of India and was constructed and completed by the Ministry of Works, Housing and Supply, of the Union of India. Plaintiff was living in this quarter with her husband. The work of electricity fittings in the main line was done by the Electricity Board, Rajasthan, whereas the internal fittings in the quarters were done by the employees of the Union of India. There was a loose earth wire, the one end of which was placed in the swich board in the quarter and the other one was left lying on the ground outside the quarter on the public street. Plaintiffs case is that on 30th January, 1961, while she came out of the quarter to collect some sand in a plate, her palm of the left hand came into contact with the earth wire lying on the public street outside the quarter. The wire clung to her palm

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