January 10, 2006	Tuesday	Zilhaj 9, 1426

KARACHI, Jan 9: Justice Khilji Arif Hussain of the Sindh High Court has asked the Karachi Electricity Supply Corporation to pay Rs2.66 million to the dependants of a 35-year-old man electrocuted in 1992.

Deceased Mohammad Yasin came into contact with a live snapped wire while on his way to work near Clifton police station. His widow and six minor children instituted a suit for damages under the Fatal Accidents Act.

The plaintiffs’ counsel, Nasir Maqsood, argued that the mishap occurred because of KESC negligence in not properly maintaining its network of overhead wires. The corporation also failed to install the ‘guard wire mechanism’, which automatically defuses wire and renders it practically dead once it is severed from an electricity pole.

BUS ATTACHED: Justice Maqbool Baqar ordered attachment of a truck involved in litigation. Cleaner Raza Khan has claimed Rs 9 million from the owner of the truck through Advocate Amir Maqsood. He said the truck was in a state of disrepair due to the owner’s negligence and he fell and lost his one of his feet in a fall from it at Mauripur.

The court asked the Mauripur SHO to seize the truck and directed the excise and taxation department not to register its transfer.