1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 831 OF 2009 IN WRIT PETITION NO. 515 OF 2009 Sahebrao Bhaskar Shingare . .. Applicant. vs. Superintending Engineer, Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd., & Ors. .. Respondents. Mr. Sanjeev P. Kadam for the Applicant. Ms. A.R.S. Baxi , for respondent nos. 1 to 4. CORAM : J.N. PATEL & SMT. MRIDULA BHATKAR, JJ. DATE : 23RD JUNE, 2009. P.C. : Heard. 2. The petitioner seeks to amend the petition by 2 incorporating certain reliefs as he wants to challenge the validity of service regulation 90 as ultra vires. The amendment sought is strongly objected to by the respondents on various grounds. 3. In our opinion, the petitioner can be permitted to amend the petition as the respondents would have sufficient opportunity to meet the case of the petitioner for the simple reason that at this stage we are ot going into the merits of the matter. Therefore, we allow the amendment. Amendment to be carried out within two weeks. Amended copy of the petition be placed on record as well as be furnished to the learned counsel for the respondents. After the amendment is carried out, the respondents will be at liberty to file their affidavit in reply to meet the pleadings which are sought to be amended. S.O., for 8 weeks. (J.N. PATEL, J.) (SMT. MRIDULA BHATKAR, J.)