AMOL RATTAN SINGH, J.

CMNo.4699-C of 2016

Learned counsel for the applicant-appellant has filed in Court today, an affidavit giving greater details for the reasons for delay in refiling the appeal, to the effect that he had changed his office from one place to another, as given in the affidavit, and the original papers got misplaced during the shifting and it was only thereafter, after the papers were retraced, that the appeal was filed.

The reasons given in the affidavit are accepted and the delay of 194 days in refiling the appeal, is condoned.

The application is allowed.

RSA No.1715 of 2016

This is the second appeal filed by the defendant-Punjab State Electricity Board (now re-named as the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited), after the suit filed by the two respondents herein (herein after referred to as the 'plaintiffs'), seeking recovery of damages/compensation on account of the death of their son, Nikka Singh, was decreed to the extent that compensation was awarded for a sum of Rs.5,50,000/-, along with interest thereupon @ 6% per annum, as against the damages of Rs.10 Lacs sought by the plaintiffs.

2. The facts, taken from the judgment of the learned Civil Judge (Sr.D