In Brief
A man died from electrocution after touching a telephone wire in his house. Appellants, employees in the telephone department, were convicted of causing death by negligence under Section 304(A) IPC, allegedly having caused a telephone wire to contact an 11 KV power line. The Supreme Court set aside the conviction, holding that the highly technical allegations lacked eyewitness corroboration and expert technical analysis. The Court found implausibilities in the prosecution theory—a high-voltage wire that did not melt or cause fire—and ruled that without proving negligence and establishing direct causal nexus, conviction on circumstantial evidence alone was unjustified.
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