IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No.5097 of 2009 Date of decision: March 31, 2009. Smt. Leela Devi ...Petitioner(s) v. State of Punjab & Ors. ...Respondent(s) CORAM:HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURYA KANT 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? 2. Whether to be referred to the Reporters or not ? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? Present: Shri Nand Lal Sammi, Advocate for the petitioner. ORDER Surya Kant, J. - (Oral): The petitioner seeks a writ of mandamus for grant of compensation on account of the death of her 10 years old son allegedly due to electrocution by coming into contact the 11 KVA loose wires lying overhead the shops of one Amir Singh son of Sadhu Singh. The petitioner's case is that the her son, Anand Kumar @ Nandi, was playing along with some other boys and when the ball they were playing with, suddenly went over the roofs of Amir Singh's shops, the petitioner's son along with one Gurpreet Singh @ Lucky, s/o Karnail Singh, climbed to the roof to pick up the ball where both of them got electrocuted by the 11 KVA high voltage electric wires which were lying loose touching the roof of the shops. Both of them were rushed to the Civil Hospital and A.P. Jain Hospital, Rajpura where they were declared brought dead. FIR No.123 under Section 304-A IPC was also got registered at P.S. City Rajpura, District Patiala in which a charge sheet under section 173 Cr.P.C. has already been presented against the PSEB authorities. The petitioner has further averred that as per the Board's policy and settled law, she is entitled to be suitably compensated on account of the untimely death of her son caused as a result of sheer negligence of the respondents. In this regard, she is stated to have made a representation dated 04.11.2008 (Annexure P-5) but no action has been taken so far. Having heard Learned Counsel for the Petitioner and keeping in view the nature of relief sought in this writ petition, I deem it appropriate to dispose of this writ petition with a direction to respondents No.2 & 3 to take cognizance of the petitioner's representation and dispose of her claim by passing a reasoned order and in case the petitioner is held entitled to payment of compensation on account of the accidental death of her son in terms of the Board's own policy, the necessary payment shall be made to her within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order. Dasti. March 31, 2009. [ Surya Kant ] kadyan Judge