JUDGMENT :

1. Petitioners, through the medium of this writ petition under Article 226 of Constitution of India read with Section 103 of Constitution of State of Jammu & Kashmir, seek direction to the respondents to pay ex-gratia and compensation to the tune of Rs. 30 lacs on account of death of their son Pankaj Sudan who died due to electrocution allegedly due to negligence of the official functionaries of the State.

2. Petitioners pleaded that in the intervening night of 9th and 10th June, 2013 at 2030 hours, the son of the petitioners, namely, Pankaj Sudan was studying in his room and due to sudden high voltage of power, all the electric light points and electrical appliances of the of the house of the petitioners as well as of other neighbors in the whole village got damaged and sound like cloud blast was heard from the room of the son of the petitioners and on entering the room they saw their son was lying unconscious on the chair in front of the electric switch board in the room; that due to electric shock the son of the petitioners got fainted and was immediately taken to S