IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTIETH DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE V.ESWARAIAH WRIT PETITION No.969 of 2001 Between: M.Sattaiah S/o. Boddaiah R/o. Allipur, Raikal Mandal, Karimnagar District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Divisional Engineer Operation, A.P.TRANSCO, Jagital, Karimnagar District. 2 The Assistant Engineer/DPE-II, A.P.TRANSCO, Karimnagar. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Aﬃdavit ﬁled herein the High Court will be pleased to to issue a writ or direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the Respondents in demanding Rs.35,918/- from the petitioner towards the arrears of bill regarding with power supply for the service connection No. ALP 246 as illegal, arbitrary and aginst principle natural justice and consequently direct the respondents to restore the power supply to the service connection ALP 246 at Alipur Village, Raikal Mandal, Karimnagar District and pass Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.P.GIRI KRISHNA Counsel for the Respondent No.: O.MANOHAR REDDY(SC FOR APTRANSCO) The Court made the following: Form-NIC-OGS/WP{MADHURI} THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE V.ESWARAIAH WRIT PETITION No.969 of 2001 ORDER: The petitioner questions the demand made by the respondents in demanding a sum of Rs.35,918/- towards the arrears of the bill regarding the power supply for the service connection No.ALP 246, as illegal, arbitrary and against the principles of natural justice. This Court while admitting the writ petition on 24.01.2001, granted interim direction to restore the power supply to the petitioner on condition that the petitioner pays a sum of Rs.10,000/- with the respondents. Sri O.Manohara Reddy, the learned standing counsel, appearing for the respondents, submits that as the shortfall amount for the period 6/98 to 12/98 was included twice in the earlier demand twice, and therefore, it was rectiﬁed and the additional surcharge levied amounting to Rs.17,507/- was withdrawn, and the shortfall amount of Rs.22,603/- and surcharge already levied is withdrawn, vide proceedings of the Assistant Accounts Oﬃcer, ERO, NPDCL, Jagtial in Letter No.AAO/ERO/NPDCL/JGL/JAO/NC/U/D.No.647/05, dated 16.11.2005 addressed to the Assistant Divisional, Operation Circle, Jagatial, and hence no further orders are required to be passed in the present writ petition. In view of the above submission made by the learned standing counsel, appearing for the respondents, the Writ Petition is closed. No order as to costs. _____________________ V.ESWARAIAH,J Dated: 20.08.2008 Dsr ... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1 The Divisional Engineer Operation, A.P.TRANSCO, Jagital, Karimnagar District. 2 The Assistant Engineer/DPE-II, A.P.TRANSCO, Karimnagar. 3 2. 2CCs to 4. 2CD copies