JUDGMENT :

Jatindra Prasad Das, J.

1. This intra Court appeal is directed against the judgment dated 23.08.2017 passed by the learned Single Judge in O.J.C. No. 10733 of 1998. The present appellants as wife, children and parents of late Sashi Bhusan Lenka filed the writ application against the opposite parties-respondents claiming compensation of Rs. 5,40,000/- (rupees five lakhs forty thousand) with interest to be paid by the respondents due to tragic death of Sashi Bhusan Lenka alleging inaction and negligence on the part of the opposite parties-respondents. It was their submission that the deceased, as usual left his house in the morning of 08.08.1997 informing his family members that after day's work, he would visit her sister's house in village Korei and thereafter would return home. He did not return. On the next day morning, the family members got an information that he has died meeting with an accident. The family members rushed to the spot and found the dead body with multiple injuries and the motorcycle used by the deceased lying nearby in a damaged condition. It was no