HON’BLE Dr. JUSTICE G. YETHIRAJULU W.P.No. 12030 of 2004 DATED: 15-02-2008 Between: Smt. Pullapadi Rajani ……………. Petitioner and 1. The Superintending Engineer (Assessments), Northern Power Distribution Company of A.P. Ltd., Warangal and two others. ………. Respondents HON’BLE Dr. JUSTICE G. YETHIRAJULU W.P.No. 12030 of 2004 ORDER: This writ petition has been filed by the petitioner seeking to declare the order, dated 24-04-2004 passed by the first respondent as arbitrary, bad and illegal and to set aside the same. 2. The petitioner is running a bakery by the side of her residence. Two service connections bearing Nos.61/II and 3003/I were taken for bakery and residence purpose respectively. On 24-03-2004, the Assistant Engineer of the Department inspected the shop and also the connection to the backside portion of the house and first floor. He noticed that some equipments used for bakery are connected to service connection No.3003/I without intimation to the electricity department, therefore, a provisional assessment order has been issued and later, a show cause notice was issued. The petitioner was afforded opportunity to submit her objections and the petitioner filed her objections and after considering the objections, the final assessment order was passed directing her to pay a sum of Rs.1,48,821/-. The petitioner preferred an Appeal before the first respondent and the first respondent passed the impugned order, dated 24-04-2004 confirming the order passed by the final assessing authority. Being aggrieved by the same, the petitioner preferred the present writ petition. 3. The petitioner contended that the inspection of the service was not done in her presence; that there was no mention that the equipments connected to domestic service are the equipments used for commercial activity; that she took water for some time for construction of the first floor, but the assessing authority calculated the amount for the entire period; that the inspection staff booked cases thinking that some of the electrical appliances belong to category No.II were connected to the domestic service; that in the absence of the detailed information and opportunity to her, the impugned order cannot sustain and it is liable to be set aside. 4. The learned counsel for the Respondents submitted that the petitioner’s husband was present at the time of inspection and he gave a statement in his own handwriting as to what equipments relating to the activity of the bakery have been connected to the domestic service and he signed on the said statement without raising any objection. 5. There is no mention by the petitioner in her writ affidavit that the provisional assessment order was not served on her. It is admitted by the petitioner to some extent that the motor was connected to the domestic service to take water to the construction activity of the first floor. There is no specific denial of connecting the equipments of the bakery to the domestic service in the backside of the house. 6. In the light of the above circumstances, I do not find any illegality or arbitrariness in the orders passed by the respondent authorities and I do not find any grounds to interfere with the same. 7. Hence, the writ petition is dismissed. No order as to costs. __________________ Dr. G.YETHIRAJULU, J Date: 15-02-2008 YCR