t 3167I IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD IVONDAY ,THE FIFTH DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY :PRESENT: THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE A.ABHISHEK REDDY lA No. 1 OF 2020 IN WP NO: '!6799 OF 2020 Between: lVl/s Penna Cement lndustries Ltd, Lakshmj Nivas 705, Road # 3, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad -500 034. Rep. by its Chief Financial Officer, Sri Peiluru Venugopal Reddy, S/o. Late Krishna Reddy Unit at: Ganeshpahad (V), Damaracherla (M), Nalgonda District -508 355. Service Connection No.NLG-406 .. . Petitioner (Petitioner in WP 16799 OF 2020 on the file of High Court) AND 1 . Southern Power Distribution Company of Telangana Ltd, #6-1-50, Mint Compound, Hyderabad-500063. Represented by its Chairman and Managing Director 2 The Superintending Engineer, Operation Circle, Nalgonda, TSSPDCL. 3. Transmission Corporation of Telangana Limited, Vidyut Soudha, Khairatabad, Hyderabad-SO0 082. Represented by its Chairman and Managing Director 4. Transmission Corporation of Andhra Pradesh Limited, Vidyut Soudha, Gunadala, EIuru Road, Vijayawada-520004. Represented by its Chairman and lvlanaging Director 5 M/s Andhra Pradesh Gas Power Corporation Ltd, #201, 2nd Floor, lt/y Home Sarovar Plaza, Secretariat Road, Hyderabad -500 003. Represented by its lt/anaging Director . .. Respondents (Respondents in-do-) Counsel for the Petitioner Counsel for the Respondents 1 TO 3 :SRI CHALLA GUNARANJAN :SRl R VINOD REDDY (S.C.) Petition under Section 151 CPC praying that in the circumstances stated in the affidavit filed in support of the petition, the High Court may be pleased to direct the , Respondents 1 and 2 not to take any coercive steps, including that of disconnection of power supply to the Petitioner's HT Service Connection No. NLG-406 (Presently the service is merged in NLG 718), or levylng the charges in the petitioneis CC bills, pursuant to the demand notice Lr.No. SE/OP/NALGONDtuD.No.156, Dl 2010612020, pending disposal of WP No. 16799 of 2020, on the file of the High Court. The court while directing issue of notice to the Respondents herein to show cause as to why this application should not be complied with, made the following order.(The receipt of this order will be deemed to be the receipt of notice in the case). A learned Single Judge of this Court in l.A.No.1 of 2020 in W,P.No.12372 of 2020, dated 10.08.2020, following the Division Bench Order in l.A.No.'l ol 2020 in W.P.No.11735 of 2020, has granted interim orders on the ground that there is no privity of contract between the petitioner and the Superintending Engineer, Operation Circle, Suryapet, TSSPDCL/2nd respondent. The facts in the present case are also similar to the facts in the above mentioned writ petitions. ORDER: z ln view of the same, this Court is of the prima facie opinion that there is no privity of contract between the petitioner and the 2nd respondent, and there is no adjudication of the differential wheeling charges by any authority, and therefore, there shall be an interim direction, as prayed for. $}/- A,SATYA VATHI ASSt!;TANT Gls i( //TRUE COPY// SECTIO FFICER To, 1. The Chairman and Managing Director, Southern Power Distribution Company of Telangana Ltd, #6-1-50, Mint Compound, Hyderabad-500063. 2. The Superintending Engineer, Operation Circle, Nalgonda, TSSPDCL. 3. The Chairman and Managing Director, Transmission Corporation of Telangana Limited, Vidyut Soudha, Khairatabad, Hyderabad-500 082. 4. The Chairman and Managing Director, Transmission Corporation of Andhra Pradesh Limited, Vidyut Soudha, Gunadala, Eluru Road, Vijayawada-520004 5 The Managing Director, M/s Andhra Pradesh Gas Power Corporation Ltd, #201, 2nd Floor, lt/y Home Sarovar Plaza, Secretariat Road, Hyderabad -500 003. (f To 5 by RPAD) 6. One CC to SRl. CHALLA GUNARANJAN Advocate [OPUC] 7. One spare copy HIGH COURT AARJ DATED:0511012tJ20 ORDER rA.NO.1 0F 2020 IN WP.No.16799 CtF 2020 INTERIM DIREC'IION jet" ..,, rl )a rY ^tS $$' vz ll.:; iL li:' M ,o