THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE B.SESHASAYANA REDDY Writ Petition No.27417 OF 2011 20th October, 2011 Between :- J.Abdul Rahiman Khan .. Petitioner And The Divisional Engineer, Operation, APCPDCL, Kurnool, And others .. Respondents THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE B.SESHASAYANA REDDY Writ Petition No.27417 OF 2011 ORDER:- This Writ Petition has been taken out seeking Mandamus declaring the inaction of the respondents in giving service connection to the land of the petitioner as arbitrary, illegal and unjust. The petitioner claims to be the absolute owner of Ac.0.16 cents in Sy.Nos.312/2 and 321, Nagendra Nagar, Adoni Road, Kurnool District, having purchased the same under registered sale deed dated 18-12-1980 from the legal representatives of Nookala Subramanyam. He approached the respondents for service connection to his land enclosing the title deeds along with relevant documents on 30-10- 2010. He also issued a legal notice dated 15-11-2010 to the Assistant Engineer, Integrated Customers’ Service Centre, APCPDCL, Hotel Mourya Inn Complex, Kurnool. There being no response to his notice, he approached this Court invoking jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking the relief stated supra. When the Writ Petition came up for admission, Sri S.V.Ramana representing Sri O.Manohar Reddy, learned standing Counsel for APCPDCL, submits that the petitioner has not furnished any proof of submitting application to the respondents seeking service connection to his land. In that view of the matter, the Writ Petition is disposed of directing the petitioner to submit the application to the respondents in the prescribed format for service connection to the land owned by him. In the event of such application being filed, the respondents have to consider the same in accordance with the Rules/Regulations in force, within a period of four weeks thereafter. Accordingly, the Writ Petition is disposed of at the admission stage. No order as to costs. _________________________ B.Seshasayana Reddy, J 20th October, 2011 smr