Lightning A Natural Calamity: Punjab And Haryana HC Relief To Man Whose Pregnant Wife Died Struck By Lightning [Read Order]

The lightning causes death because heavy current passes through the body, damaging several parts and largely affects the poor people of the lower strata who work in open even during the rain, the court said.The Punjab and Haryana High Court, holding ‘lightning’ as a natural calamity, has directed the state authorities to consider granting compensation to a man whose pregnant wife had...