Mangalu Kosariya v. Executive Director
Case brief
What is this about?
Keywords: death due to electric current; electrocution compensation; Chhattisgarh State Power Distribution Company Ltd. (CSPDCL); Executive Engineer Janjgir; pending/undecided representation Annexure P-1 dated 03.03.2023; Government circular compensation; direction to decide representation within three months; writ petition disposed without notice to respondents 1-4; merits of claim not decided; liberty to file fresh representation; Janjgir-Champa; Shivrinarayan; single-judge order (Parth Prateem Sahu, J.), NAFR.
What did the court decide?
Direction to respondent no. 3 (Executive Engineer) to decide the pending representation (Annexure P-1 dated 03.03.2023) on its own merit, preferably within three months from receipt of a copy of the Order, without notice to respondents no. 1 to 4 and without deciding the merits of the compensation claim; liberty to the petitioner to file a fresh representation along with the Order, to be considered together with the pending representation.