the fact that there is a Society (SPORT) that currently occupies Bangaram Island, lead me to reject the contention, advanced on behalf of the respondent Administration, that Bangaram Island is an uninhabited Island, for the purposes of excluding the inhabitants of the Island from the benefit of electricity supply as contemplated under the Electricity Act, 2003. While there is no statutory provision which mandates that electricity supply should be given only to such Islands as are inhabited, in the sense understood by the respondent Administration, even if the term “inhabitation ” is to be understood in the ordinary sense, it must necessarily refer to a place where there is habitation, either active or constructive. The word “inhabited”, as an adjective, refers to a place with people or animals living there. In other words, if, as a matter of fact, there are people or animals living in any Island, the Island itself qualifies to be an inhabited Island. Inasmuch as it is not in dispute that the Society (SPORT) is in occupation of Bangaram Island, the said fact alone would suffice to hold that the Island is to be treated as an inhabited one. If that be the case, then, in my view, there cannot be a discrimination between two sets of inhabitants for the purposes of supply of electricity to one, to the exclusion of the other. I therefore, find that Ext.P4 communication, that is
