JUDGMENT :

1. This writ petition was filed by the petitioner, seeking a writ of mandamus directing Respondents to pay a compensation of Rs. 15.00 lacs along with interest @ 18% per annum to the petitioner, on account of death of her minor son-Banu Kumar, due to electrocution when he came in contact with live fallen down electric wire while playing in the street, near Temple at Bagh-e-Bahu, Jammu, and met the fatal electrical accident.

2. The case of the petitioner is that her minor son, namely, Banu Kumar, on the fateful day i.e. 11.10.2010, when he was playing mirthfully adjacent to his house got electric shock with a live wire installed by the respondents department, which was allegedly fallen down, near the temple at Bhag-e-Bahu, Jammu, and received injuries/burns on the spot; that he was immediately rushed to Govt. Medical Hospital, Jammu by the police and the people of the vicinity, where he was declared as dead, his post-mortem was conducted there and the cause of death was reported as ‘death due to electrocution’; that regarding this incident, FIR No.45/2010 came to be registe