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Smti.Poornam v. the Superintending Engineer and Ors.

Calcutta HC5 Feb 2026WPA/46/2026

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WPA/46/2026; High Court at Calcutta, Circuit Bench at Port Blair; Arijit Banerjee, J.; electricity connection application; dilapidated house; inspection photographs by Electricity Department; petitioner's undertaking to renovate house; direction to process application within a fortnight of being informed; petition disposed of.

What did the court decide?

Direction to the respondent authorities that, upon the petitioner informing them after renovating her house to make it suitable for electricity connection and complying with other formalities, they shall process her application expeditiously and take it to its logical conclusion within a fortnight. ¶18

Smti.Poornam Vs the Superintending Engineer and Ors. — Calcutta HC (2026) — LawSathi Research

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Issue for consideration

How and when the petitioner's pending application for electricity connection to her house is to be processed, given that inspection photographs showed the house to be completely dilapidated and the petitioner undertook to renovate it.

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Ratio / Principle

Once the petitioner renovates her house to make it suitable for electricity connection and complies with other formalities, she may inform the respondent authorities, who shall then process her application for electricity connection expeditiously.

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Key takeaways

The respondent authorities shall take the processing of the petitioner's electricity connection application to its logical conclusion within a fortnight from the date of receiving information from the petitioner.ratio¶17

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Calcutta High Court, Circuit Bench at Port Blair — single-Judge order of Arijit Banerjee, J., dated February 05, 2026, disposing of WPA/46/2026 (Smti. Poornam v. The Superintending Engineer and Others). The petitioner had applied for an electricity connection to her house. Photographs taken by Electricity Department officials during inspection were shown in court; these depicted the house as completely dilapidated, and were kept on record. Counsel for the petitioner undertook that she would renovate the house appropriately to make it suitable for connection. The writ petition was disposed of with the direction that once the petitioner renovates the house suitably and complies with other formalities, she may inform the respondent authorities, who shall then process her application expeditiously and take it to its logical conclusion within a fortnight of receiving such information. Parties to act on the server copy downloaded from the Court's official website.

Smti.Poornam v. the Superintending Engineer and Ors.

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