A court in Karachi has ordered K-Electric to pay Rs 50.6 million in compensation to the heirs of a father and son who died from an electric shock during rainfall.
The case was heard in the Senior Civil Judge South’s court, where the claim for damages against K-Electric was presented.
The court directed K-Electric to deposit the compensation amount with the court’s observer within 30 days.
The observer has been instructed to disburse the compensation to the victims’ heirs and report back to the court.
In December 2024, a Karachi court ordered the K-Electric (KE) to pay over Rs4.8 million in compensation to the parents of an eight-year-old boy, who had died from electrocution in 2017.
The parents of the deceased boy, Azhan Siddiqui, had filed a civil suit through their counsel Usman Farooq before senior Civil Judge (East) Ambreen Jamal, seeking compensation of Rs14.5 million under the Fatal Accidents Act, 1885, from the KE over the death of their young child, who died after electric wires snapped during a heavy downpour in 2017.
