Paramjeet Singh, J.

The unfortunate parents and an unmarried sister have approached this court under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India for issuance of a writ in the nature of mandamus directing the respondents to pay compensation to the petitioners who have lost their 18 years old son Balbir Singh alias Gulab (deceased), student of 10+2 class, a helping hand in the agricultural works for the family and a bread earner. While working in his fields on 16/06/2013, he suddenly came in contact with a live supporting stay wire (guy wire) of 11 KVA electric pole standing near the tube-well room in his fields and died at the spot due to electrocution. Immediately, he was taken to Saraswati Mission Hospital, Pehowa for treatment, but doctor declared him brought dead. A DDR No. 19 dated 16.06.2013 (Annexure P-1) was lodged with the police at police post Karah Sahib and post-mortem (Annexure P-2) of the dead body was conducted on 17/6/2013. The doctor opined cause of death as under :

"Opinion: in my opinion the cause of death in this case is electrical injury which is ante mortem in nature and sufficient to cause death in ordinary course of events.

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