Gitarani Mahato v. The Superintending Engineer And ANR

IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA

[ CIRCUIT BENCH AT PORT BLAIR ] ...

WPA/103/2024 Smti. Gitarani Mahato ... Petitioner Vs.

The Superintending Engineer and Anr.

... Respondents Mr. Roban Antony ...for the Petitioner (On behalf of Mr. R. Arul Peter) Mr. Tulsi Lall Mr. Rakesh Kumar ...for the Respondents February 05, 2024 (M.A.Mobin) Item No.14 The Petitioner claims to be in occupation of a piece of Government Revenue Land bearing Survey No.1/P measuring an area of about 200 Sq. Mtrs. situated at Birsa Nagar, Attampahar under Port Blair Tehsil in South Andaman District and is residing there along with her family by constructing a dwelling house.

The petitioner submitted an application before the Electricity Department, A & N Administration praying for new service connection for supply of electricity. The grievance of the petitioner is that the Respondent Authorities have not yet taken any decision on the said application which has been filed on 8th September, 2023. In view thereof WPA 103 of 2024 is disposed of by directing the Assistant Engineer, Sub-Division-II, Electricity Department, Port Blair, South Andaman being the 2nd

Respondent to consider the application dated 8th September, 2023 submitted by the petitioner and to effect supply of electricity to the petitioner upon compliance of all formalities in this regard as expeditiously as possible but positively within a period of three weeks from the date of receipt of a server copy of this order.

Parties to act on a server copy of this order duly collected from the official website of the Hon'ble High Court at Calcutta.

Urgent Photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties, subject to compliance with all requisite formalities.

(Hiranmay Bhattacharyya, J.)