The prayer in the writ petition is to issue a Writ of Mandamus directing the respondents to pay a sum of Rs.5,00,000/- towards compensation for the death of petitoner's wife, caused by electrocution due to the negligence of the respondents.

2. The case of the petitioner is that he is an Agriculturist and residing in Vinayagampattu Village, Puducherry, along with his family and that he is having two sons. On 17.5.2009 around 5 p.m., petitioner's wife Malathi aged 47 years went to farm lands for plucking the grass, to be given to cow. As she did not return home till 6.00 p.m., petitioner along with few neighbours went to the farm land in search of her and found his wife lying in the land, holding the disconnected electric wire in her hand. Immediately petitioner approached the second respondent and electricity connection was switched off. When the petitioner lifted his wife, he found that she was already dead. A complaint was given to the Vinayagampattu Police Station on the same day and a FIR was registered. Post mortem was conducted on the body of the deceased and the post mortem report clearly states that the death was due to electrocution. According to the petitioner, lyi