Supreme Court · 2002 INSC 21 · Decided 12 January 2002
M.P. Electricity Board v. Shail Kumari and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2002 INSC 21 · [2002] 1 S.C.R. 164
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 180/2002
- Decided
- 12 January 2002
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, S.N. PHUKAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Torts: Victim electrocuted by a live wire lying on road-Claim for C Compensation by dependents of the victim-Electricity Board contending that the wire fell down due to illegal tapping by a stranger and hence liability is on the stranger-Rule of Strict Liability-Exception to the rule being an 'Act or its consequences should have D been provented by the Electricity Board-Hence, the exception is not available and therefore the Electricity Board is liable to pay compensation. One J, a workman, while returning from his factory on a bicycle in the night, came into contract with a live wire,
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