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Santosh Chaurasiya v. State of U.P. and Another

Allahabad HC17 Jul 2025WRIC/18811/2025

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Allahabad HC DB disposed WRIT - C No. 18811 of 2025, Santosh Chaurasiya v. State of U.P. and Another (18.7.2025; 2025:AHC:116886-DB): hazardous/precarious electric poles and lines, risk of electrocution, village Dhuria Kot, Tamkuhi, District Kushinagar; earlier complaint dated 3.5.2025 to SDM; directions for fresh complaint to respondent no.2 and immediate preventive action.

What did the court decide?

Writ petition disposed of with directions: petitioner to lodge a fresh complaint with respondent no.2 enclosing certified copy of the order and his earlier complaint dated 3rd May, 2025; respondent no.2 to take immediate action to prevent any untoward incident; counsel for respondent no.2 requested to inform her client to act without waiting for the communication. ¶4

Santosh Chaurasiya Vs State of U.P. and Another — Allahabad HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

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Issue for consideration

Whether the respondent authorities should be directed to act on the petitioner's complaint regarding electric poles bearing electric lines in a precarious condition, posing imminent risk of electrocution, in village Dhuria Kot, Tamkuhi, District Kushinagar.

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Court's answer

The petitioner is to lodge a fresh complaint with respondent no.2, enclosing a certified copy of this order and a copy of his earlier complaint dated 3rd May, 2025 addressed to the Sub-Divisional Magistrate.

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Ratio / Principle

Respondent no.2 will cause immediate action to be taken to prevent any untoward incident arising from the hazardous electric lines; counsel for respondent no.2 was requested to inform her client to act without waiting for formal communication.

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Allahabad High Court (Division Bench: Arindam Sinha and Dr. Y.K. Srivastava, JJ.), by order dated 18.7.2025 in WRIT - C No. 18811 of 2025 (neutral citation 2025:AHC:116886-DB), disposed of a petition by Santosh Chaurasiya, a resident of village Dhuria Kot, Tamkuhi, District Kushinagar, who alleged that electric poles in the village bearing electric lines were in a precarious condition with imminent possibility of accident by electrocution, and who had complained to the Sub-Divisional Magistrate on 3rd May, 2025. The Court directed the petitioner to lodge a fresh complaint with respondent no.2 enclosing a certified copy of the order and a copy of the earlier complaint, and directed respondent no.2 to cause immediate action to prevent any untoward incident, while requesting counsel for respondent no.2 to inform her client to act without waiting for the communication.

Santosh Chaurasiya v. State of U.P. and Another

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