Vemula Nagesh v. The State of Telangana,
Court: High Court for State of Telangana
Bench: SUREPALLI NANDA
Judgment date:
Case summary
High Court for State of Telangana judgment dated 2025-02-25. Vemula Nagesh v. The State of Telangana,. Read the judgment and case details on LawSphereX.
Judgment text
132521 HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE TWENTY FIFTH DAY OF FEBRUARY FIVE TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY PRESENT , SUREPALLI NANDA THE HONOURABLE MRS JUSTTCE WRIT PETITION NO: 5565 OF 2025 Between: 44 Vemula Nagesh, S/o. Late Vemula Chinn U-shanna' aged about 'years' pfot - C, Sri Ram Nagar Colony' lt/aseed Oil. ausint-ss, nyo. itfo. sO' Alock Banda, serilingampally, Rangareddy District' ... PETITIONER AND Secretary' Power and Energy 1 The State of Telangana, rep. by its -Principal Department. Secretiriat. Hyd erabad-590022 ' its Ltd-, of-. Telangqna rPp by 2 Southern Power Distribution Company its office at Mint Compound' 6;;il;; anJ-tvtanaging birector. 'having secretariat Hyderabad. Company Ltd. , of Telan ana, rep. bY its 3. Southern Power Distribution s Engineer (operational) CYbercitY lrcle, CYbercitY, Superintending Hyderabad. its 4. Southern Power Distribution CompanY Ltd. , of Telangana, reP.
bY Ga chibowli Division, Hyderabad Divisional Engineer (operational) Ltd... of Telangana. rep by its 5. southern Power Distribution company " Hyderabad. (;perational) Gdchibowli Division, Aiii. Oiut. ionaf fnginelr ... RESPONDENTS praying that in lhe constitution of lndia the Petition under Article 226 of the circumstances stated in affidavit filed therewith' the High Court may be in more particularly one pleased to issue an appropriate Writ, order or direction the Respondents in by declaring the action of the nature of writ of Mandamus notprocessingtheapplicationsforreleaseofelectricityconnectionstothe sq yards' Phase-l' petitioner s property bearing Plot No'025, admeasuring 170 Mandal' Village, serilingampally situated in sy. No. 25lP al Kancha Gachibowli and consequently direct the as illegal, arbitrary, unjust Rangareddy District respondentstoprocessapplicationdaled26.
l2,2O24forprovidingelectricity connectrons and to release service connections with meters without any further delay. lA NO: 1 OF 2025 Petition unrierr section 1s1 cpc praying that in the circumstances stated in the affidavit f iled in support of the petition, the High court ma y be pleased to direct the 3rd Respondent to process apprication dated 26. 12. 2024 for providing electricity connections and to release service connections with meters to the petitioner s property bearing prot No. 025, admeasuring i 70 sq yards, phase-r, situated in Sy. No. 25rP at Kancha Gachibowri Viflage, Seriringampaily IVandar, Rangareddy District. Counsel for the Petitioner: SRI BAGLEKAR AKASH KUMAR Counsel for the Respondent No. 1 : AGp FOR ENERGy Counsel for the Respondent No. 2 to 5: SRI N. SREEDHAR REDDy, SC FOR TGSPDCL The Court made the following: ORDER l l , i at HON'BLE MRS.
]USTICE SUREPALLI NANDA N of RIT ORDER: learned counsel Akash Kumar' Heard Baglekar petitioner' learned Assista nt of appearing on behalf Energy' appearing on behalf of Government Pleader for Sri N'sreedhar Reddy' lea rned respondent No. 1 and StandingCounse! forTGSPDCL,appearingonbehalfof respondent Nos. 2 to 5. c see f r 2. Th to r asu nder: Writ' order or direction "... to issue an appropriate Writ oF in the natu. re of Mandamus more particularly one of the Respondents in not action by declaring the for release of electricity processing the applications property bearing Plot petitioner's connections to the yards' Phase-I Situated in 170 sq No. 025, admeasuring Kancha Gachibowli Village' Sy. No.
25lP at Rangareddy District as illegal' Serilingampally Mandal, consequently direct the and arbitrary, unjust 26'12'2024 for application dated process respondents to and to release service connections providing electricity without any further delay and connections with meters as this Hon'ble Court may or orders to pass such order the interest of justice"' deem fit and proper in 2 SN, J wP 5565 2025 3. It is r,:presented by the learned counsel appearing on behalf of rhe petitioner and the learned tstanding Counsel appearing cn behalf of respondent Nos. 2 to 5 that, the subject issue in the present Writ petition is squarelv covered by the order of this Court dated 04. 02. 2025 passed in W. p. No. 2647 of 2025 and herrce, the present writ petition could be disposed of in terms of the aforesaid order. 4. Ta kino into co nsideratio n: a) The aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and, b) The submissions put-forth by both the learned counse!
appearing on behalf of the petitioner and the Iearned Standing Counsel appearing on behalf of respondent Nos. 2 to 5, The writ petition is disposed of at the admission stage directing the petitioner to make a fresh application within a period of one (1) week from the date of receipt of a copy of this order along with all the relevant documents as mandated under the rules and on receipt of such application with all the relevant documents, the respondents are directed to consider the request of the 3 SN, J wP 5565 2025 petitioner for grant of necessary electricity connection as sought for by the petitioner to the subject premises of the petitioner bearing Plot No. O25, admeasuring 170 Sq. yards, Phase-I situated in Sy. No. 25lP at Kancha Gachibowli Village, Serilingampally Mandal, Rangareddy District, Telangana State, and pass appropriate orders on the said application of the petitioner in accordance to law, expeditiously, preferably within a period of two (2) weeks thereafter.
However, there shall be no order as to costs. As a sequel, the miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending in the Writ Petition shall also stand closed. SD/. MOHD. ISMAIL ASSISTANT REGISTRAR //TRUE COPY// \ S CTION OFFICER To, '1 . The Principal Secretary, Power and Energy Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad, State of Telang ana-590022. 2. The Chairman and lVlanaging Director, Southern Power Distribution Company Ltd. , of Telangana, having its office at [/int Compound, secretariat Hyderabad. 3. The Superintending Engineer (Operational), Southern Power Distribution Company Ltd. , of Telangana, Cybercity Circle, Cybercity, Hyderabad. 4 The Divisional Engineer (Operational), Southern Power Distribution Company Ltd. , of Telangana, Gachibowli Division, Hyderabad. 5 The Asst. Divisional Engineer (Operational), Southern Power Distribution Company Ltd. , of Telangana, Gachibowli Division, Hyderabad. t) One CC to SRI BAGLEKAR AKASH KUMAR, Advocate [OPUC] 7 One CC to SRI N.
SREEDHAR REDDY, SC FOR TGSPDCL [OPUC] 8 Two CCs to GP FOR ENERGY, High Court for the State of Telangana at Hyderabad [OUT] I Two CD Copies BSR GJP CC TODAY HIGH COURT DATED: 25102t2025 c sl4re ( o o 0 4 liAfl 206 o t * ORDER DE 5 tlfr(:. WP. No. 5563 of 2025 DISPOSING OF THE WRIT PETITION, WITHOUT COSTS
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