B. SUBHASHAN REDDY, J.

( 1 ) (AT the Admission Stage) this Wri t Petition arises under Indian Telegraph Act, 1885. The Petitioner is a firm comprising of father and son. The firm applied for telephone in the year 1984and the same was sanctioned and installed as telephone No. 64877 initially, and later on, it was re-numbered as 474877. In so far as this petitioner-firm is concern ed no arrears a re there. Smt. Mahalakshmi, who is the wife of one of the partners i. e. , father,also has got independent telephone bearing No. 479093 and that was installed only in the year 1994. With regard to the above installation of telephone in the name of the petitioner-firm in the year 1984 and that of smt. Mahalakshmi in the year 1994 is not disputed in the counter. It is stated that smt. Mahalakshmi fell in huge arrears of over 8 lakhs on account of user of the above telephone No. 479093. May be that both these telephones are installed in the same house, but there is no reason to say that merely because she is the wife of one of the partners of the petitioner-firm, the petitioner s telephone can be disconnected not on account of any default by the petitioner-firm but on account of the default of S

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