Smt. Geeta Devi v. State Ofuttar Pradesh and 2 Others
Case brief
What is this about?
Allahabad High Court, WRIT - C No. 30511 of 2025 (decided 09.10.2025, Justices Saral Srivastava and Sudhanshu Chauhan): writ petition by Smt. Geeta Devi seeking mandamus for compliance with the ACJM-III Varanasi order dated 07.09.2024 in Misc. Case No. 115 of 2018 (Geeta Devi Vs. Chandrabhushan and others) and grant of a new electricity connection by respondent no.2, Executive Engineer, Purvanchal Vidyut Vitaran Nigam Ltd., Chaukaghat, Varanasi. Petition disposed of without entering merits, with liberty to apply afresh in prescribed format; decision on such application directed preferably within two months. No statute cited and no precedent engaged; counsel had confirmed petitioner had not yet applied.
What did the court decide?
Liberty to the petitioner to make an appropriate application before the competent authority in the prescribed format for grant of an electricity connection, with a direction to respondent no.2 (Executive Engineer, Purvanchal Vidyut Vitaran Nigam Ltd., Chaukaghat, Varanasi) to consider and dispose of such application expeditiously, strictly in accordance with law, keeping in view the order dated 07.09.2024 in Misc. Case No. 115 of 2018, preferably within two months of filing.