( 1 ) THE petitioner is a Private Limited Company incorporated under the Companies Act. Teh petitioner-Company owns landed property in Sy. Nos. 362, 363, 365/1 situated at Gudur village, Bibinagar Mandal, Nalgonda District to an extent of Ac. 33-00 having purchased the same by the registered sale deed Nos. 4591/94, 4592/1/94 and 4593/i/94 dated 7-9-1994. The petitioner - claims that those lands were converted as house sites/plots after obtaining lay-out permission from the Gudur Gram Panchayat, dated 21-8-1996. The petitioner complaining that the respondent authorities of the APSEB without any notice to the petitioner proposed to lay the over-head lines above the land of the petitioner filed the writ petition praying for declaration that the action of the respondents in encroaching upon the property of the petitioner and laying overhead lines for transmission of electrical energy and putting up towers for support of the lines as arbitrary and without authority of law and for a consequential direction to the respondents to consider for re-alignment of electrical supply lines.

( 2 ) IN response to Rule Nisi, the second respondent has filed counter-affidavit resisting t