JUDGMENT :

1. Having regard to the common facts, grounds and identical application of law, it is proposed to decide both the above titled writ petitions by this common judgment.

2. Petitioners in both the petitions pleaded that in the intervening night of 17th and 18th May, 2010 at around 2 O’clock midnight, a dilapidated high voltage live electric 11 KV line fell on a LT line in the area, which led to burning of the house of one Piyar Singh in Village Dhansal of Assar area of District Doda; that two of his sons, namely, Ram Kumar Singh and Surjeet Singh got electrocuted as both of them had been sleeping at that point of time inside the house and due to sudden suffocation they ran out of the panic, in order to save their lives and that of other family members, rushed out of home to their courtyard where a broken/snapped live electric wire carrying a potentially dangerous voltage of 11 KV plus came in their contact and in the process both of them got electrocuted, whereas, rest of the family members too received serious burn injuries; that the injured Ram Kumar Singh and Surjeet S