Penalty for the damages to the eletricity pole

Manish Kumar ji, If your driver has caused the damage during the course of service, then, company would be liable to pay compensation if at all a case is booked. Otherwise, how company is liable?

Dear Suchitra..

Firstly thanks for the reply and i want to say that the driver is under the course of employment, FIR is not lodged against the driver or company till now.

What remedies the EB or villagers have. The Pole is already repaired by EB.

Regards,

Manish

Manish ji, I think you are unnecessarily worried. It is true that company is liable to pay the expences if accident occurs during the course of employment. But as you said, there is no complaint by the villagers and also, EB has repaired the pole already. So, i think there should not be any point to worry about. Leave it at that and be happy.

 Please ask the driver to put it in writing to the company.

Normally electricity board lodge complaint to the local police station if they came to know the registration number of the vehicle or whereabouts of the driver or vehicle. 

The normal practice is that police seize the vehicle which caused the damage and the owner pay compensation to EB and police let off the vehicle without registering FIR.

In this case if the FIR is not lodged yet, it seems they do not know who caused the accident.

 The problem is that nothing happens in this country normally.