JUDGMENT

Rajiv Narain Raina, J. - Human life has no price in terms of money. If it is extinguished by electrocution due to the negligence and carelessness of the managers of the power supply, cases of compensation arise. The conduct of the agents of the supplier of electrical energy in their duty to maintain harmless, the supply of potentially dangerous energy and especially through high voltage transmission lines in areas where there is greater probability of humans living in and around habitation is statutorily prescribed in Section 68 of the Indian Electricity Act, 2003 and Rules 29, 44, 45, 46, 59 & 91 of the Indian Electricity Rules, 1956. To these provisions, there is no need of further elaboration since they have been discussed in some depth by this court in a case of injury by electrocution in Raman vs. State of Haryana & others, (2013) 3 ACC 570 , as affirmed by the Supreme Court in Raman vs. Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam, (2014) 15 SCC 1 based on principles of strict and vicarious liability of the tortfeasor for which no special proof of negligence and carelessness is demanded by court by way of evidence, evidence of the kind associated with the civil court gathered for