Durga Laxmi v. The Superintending Engineer And ORS.

IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA

[ CIRCUIT BENCH AT PORT BLAIR ] *** WPA/464/2024 Durga Laxmi Vs.

The Superintending Engineer and others Mr. Pardeshia Munda ... for the petitioner Mr. S.C.Mishra ... for the respondents September 09, 2024 [SR] Item No.25 The petitioner prays for a direction upon the respondent authorities to provide electricity connection to the writ petitioner's house located at the place mentioned in the writ petition. It is now settled law that an occupant of a property is entitled to electricity connection irrespective of his status in law in so far as his occupation is concerned. The petitioner is occupying a government revenue land. One may refer to the Full Bench decision in the case of Abhimanyu Mazumdar vs. The Superintending Engineer reported at AIR 2011 Cal 64 and the judgment and order dated 6th September, 2024 in WPA/357/2024 ( M.S.Rajendran vs.

The Superintending Engineer, Electricity Department and another) Accordingly, I dispose of this writ petition by directing the respondents to process the writ petitioner's application for electricity connection and provide such connection unless there is some bar in law or there are some other compelling reasons for not allowing the application for electricity connection, subject to the writ petitioner complying with all necessary formalities.

The exercise should be completed within a period of ten weeks from date.

WPA/464/2024 is disposed of accordingly.

( Arindam Mukherjee, J. )