Compensation to Family of 18-Year-Old Electrocuted by Low-Hanging Live Wire Upheld: Gujarat High Court
The Gujarat High Court, in First Appeal No. 470 of 2012, dismissed an appeal filed by Paschim Gujarat Vij. Co. Ltd., and upheld the trial court's order awarding compensation of over Rs. 6,25,000 to the mother of an 18-year-old boy who died due to electrocution in March 2008. The tragic incident occurred when the boy was cutting grass for grazing cattle and got electrocuted by live electric wires hanging low…