ORDER :

M. Ganga Rao, J.

1. The Transmission Corporation of Andhra Pradesh through its officials filed this writ petition questioning the order, dated 30.6.2018, passed in OP No. 51 of 2017 by the A.P. Electricity Regulatory Commission, Hyderabad, [for short, 'the Commission'] wherein and whereby the Commission allowed the above OP filed by respondent Nos. 2 and 3 herein seeking compensation and damages for laying the high tension electrical lines across their lands in Sy. No. 41/1 of Guntupalli, Krishna District, mainly contending that the A.P. Electricity Regulatory Commission has no jurisdiction to entertain the said O.P.

2. The brief facts of the case are that respondents 2 & 3 herein filed the above OP before the Commission against the petitioners herein and respondents 4 to 6 herein, under Rule 13(1)(2) of the Andhra Pradesh Works of Licensee Rules, 2007 read with Section 19(1)(a) and (b) of the Electricity Act, 2003 [for short, 'the Act'], seeking a direction to the Collector and District Magistrate-4th respondent herein to fix the compensation for loss of crop, loss of land value with interest from 3.2.2009, the date of construction of towers and lines as part of Nunna to Sris