{"id":432204,"date":"2021-08-26T09:55:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T04:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=432204"},"modified":"2021-08-26T11:06:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T05:36:55","slug":"delhi-high-court-awards-%e2%82%b920-lakh-to-man-rendered-100-disabled-after-falling-from-power-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-high-court-awards-%e2%82%b920-lakh-to-man-rendered-100-disabled-after-falling-from-power-pole\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi high court awards \u20b920 lakh to man rendered 100% disabled after falling from power pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi high court on Wednesday granted \u20b920 lakh as compensation to a 28-year-old man, who was rendered fully disabled after falling off an electricity pole while fixing a fault in Bijwasan area in 2014. The court said even though \u201che is living, he is barely alive\u201d and directed BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL) and the contractor, Bryn Construction Company, to pay the compensation within three weeks of Wednesday\u2019s judgment. <\/p>\n<p>On April 25, 2014, Bharat, then 21 years, while working as an electrician with Bryn, was tasked with rectifying a fault in an electricity pole that was causing fluctuations in the supply to a farmhouse in Bijwasan. He fell while performing the task as the pole he was on snapped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi high court on Wednesday granted \u20b920 lakh as compensation to a 28-year-old man, who was rendered fully disabled after falling off an electricity pole while fixing a fault in Bijwasan area in 2014. The court said even though \u201che is living, he is barely alive\u201d and directed BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL) and the contractor, Bryn Construction Company, to pay the compensation within three weeks of Wednesday\u2019s judgment. On April 25, 2014, Bharat, then 21 years, while working as an electrician with Bryn, was tasked with rectifying a fault in an electricity pole that was causing fluctuations in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}