September 30, 2024
Sl. No.309
Court No.9
s.biswas
WPA 18163 of 2024
Arun Kumar Shaw
vs.
The West Bengal State Electricity
Distribution Company Limited and others
Mr. Bidyut Kumar Halder
Mr. Indranil Halder
… for the petitioner
Mr. Sumit Roy
… for the WBSEDCL
The petitioner is aggrieved because the Sonarpur
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Customer Care Centre had not taken any
initiative to grant new connection, although the
petitioner claims to have paid all the money.
Mr. Sumit Roy, learned advocate for the West
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Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company
Limited, submits that nine poles have to be
erected in order to grant connection to the
petitioner. Objections were raised by the local
people. Mr. Roy is not in position to apprise this
court as to the identity of such persons.
Under such circumstances, the writ petition is
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disposed of with a direction upon the Garia
Divisional Engineer to cause an inspection along
with the Station Manager of Sonarpur Customer
Care Centre, petitioner, Officer-in-Charge,
Narendrapur Police Station, municipality and/or
the panchayat authority as the case may be, for
identification of the positions where such poles
will be erected and take steps to grant connection
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to the petitioner, without causing any hindrance
to the ingress and egress of other persons of the
locality. The inspection team shall explore the
possibility of granting connection in the same
manner in which the other local people have been
given connection. The entire exercise shall be
completed within a period of three months from
receipt of no objection from the wetland
authorities.
As it is submitted that the concerned area is in a
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wetland, necessary permission from the wetland
authorities shall also be supplied by the
petitioner before the authority undertakes such
inspection.
5. Accordingly, the writ petition is disposed of.
6. All the parties are directed to act on the basis of
the server copy of the order.
(Shampa Sarkar, J.)