O. CHINNAPPA REDDY, J.

( 1 ) THE petitioners in all these Writ Petitions are consumers of electricity to whom electrical energy is supplied by the Andhra Pradesh Electricity Board officials of the Board, suspecting that there has been illegal and unauthorised abstration of electrical energy by the petitioners stopped supply of energy to the petitioners by disconnscting their service, as they are authored to do under Clause 10 of -he General Terms and conditions. Pending determination of the amount of compensation payable to the Board for the unauthorised abstraction of energy in accordance with Clause 9 as sure of interim relief, the Board, through its Officers offered to each of the petitioners to resume supply of electricity if they paid a certain amount estimat. ed by the Board tentatively as compensation. At that stage the petitioners have invoked the jurisdiction of this Court under Art, 226 of the Constitution for the issue of Writs to direct the respondent Board to restore supply of electricity and to restrain the Board from enforcing its alleged demand. In each of these cases an Interim order has been granted directing the Board to resume the supply of electricity on conditi

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