P. VENKATARAMA REDDI, S. R. NAYAK, J.

( 1 ) IN recent times, the wind of reform which aims at paving the way for a healthy, dynamic, financially viable and self- sustained growth of the power sector to meet the ever increasing demand for electricity from various categories of customers on an equitable basis both in terms of quality and quantity as well as of reasonable tariff so as to facilitate a rapid growth of the Nation s economy is blowing in almost all the States in India. Sometimes, as in the case of the State of Andhra pradesh, the blowing of the reform win was very hard, strong and hurting too against certain hitherto protected and favoured categories of consumers of electricity like agriculturists and domestic consumers, irrespective of the fact whether it is justified or not. This resulted in perceived shock and dismay and spontaneously generated persistent and percurrent protests, rallies, agitations ending, at times, with unpardonable violence denounced with abomination and righteous indignation by the Father of the nation. Police interventions in the troubled situations and accusations of police excesses have become talk of the State and rocked the proceedings of the

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