A. R. LAKSHMANAN, J.

( 1 ) HEARD Mr. T. Ravi Kumar for the petitioner and Mr. K. Ramakumar, Senior central Government Standing Counsel, for the respondents. We also heard Mr. John varghese, Additional Central Government standing Counsel, who appeared for the respondents in O. P. No. 6115 of 1997, which is also on the same subject matter.

( 2 ) THE petitioner is an Advocate on the rolls of the Kerala Bar Council, who is practising in this Court and in other Courts and Tribunals. He applied for a new telephone connection within the territorial jurisdiction of Parur Telephone Exchange in 1997. He made a representation on 13-2-1997 explaining the hardships faced by him due to the lack of telephone connection at his office and requested to give new telephone connection to the petitioner at his office on a priority basis considering his profession as a lawyer. He also stated in the representation that he had obtained telephone connection at his house in the ordinary category. The representation is marked as Ext. P-3. The sub-Divisional Engineer, Department of telecommunications, North Paravoor sent a reply to Ext. P-3 representation informing the petitioner that for getting a new telepho

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