CWP No.2742 of 2010 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.2742 of 2010 Date of Decision:- February 19, 2010 Inderjit Singh and another ...Petitioners Versus Punjab State Electricity Board and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K.KANNAN Present: Mr.Sandeep Arora, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr.Sukhbir Singh, Advocate for respondents No.1 to 3. ***** K.KANNAN, J.(Oral) 1. Learned counsel for the respondents states on the instructions of Kuldeep Singh, Assistant Executive Engineer that electricity connection was in the name of father of the first petitioner and that the property stood registered in the name of the mother. The property was purported to have transferred by a Will in favour of another son, on the basis of which, the other son in alleged exercise of ownership of the property, had applied to the Electricity Board for disconnection. 2. Learned counsel for the respondent states that it shall be possible for t he Electricity Board to entertain a plea for electricity connection, if an application is made for a fresh connection, with proof of actual possession of the property. Learned counsel for the respondents states that without an application for grant of electricity connection, it shall not be possible to grant electricity connection, which has been CWP No.2742 of 2010 -2- disconnected. 3. Having regard to the feature of electricity as necessity in these modern days, I accord to the petitioner a right to apply for service connection which shall be considered by the respondents and grant service connection as per rules. The writ petition is itself disposed of with the above directions. This order shall not be construed as making any reference to the title of the property, which the petition claims, he is in possession of. This order shall have a bearing only for the purpose of obtaining electricity connection in the manner provided under the provisions of Electricity Act, 2003 and relevant Rules. 4. On the appropriate application filed by the petitioner, the respondents No.1 to 3 shall consider and issue service connection as per law within the period of two weeks from the date of receipt of certified copy. Copy of this order be given dasti on payment of usual charges. February 19, 2010 (K.KANNAN) Vt JUDGE