( 1 ) WHAT arises for decision in these Writ Appeals and Writ Petition is the validity of the proposal/action of the Karnataka Electricity board (for short 'the Board') in erecting high tension line over the lands of the appellants for supply of additional power-500 KVA to m/s. Widia (India) Limited (for short 'the Widia' ). The above action of the Board was assailed by the writ petitioners on the grounds that the same was contrary to the provisions of the Indian Electricity act, 1910 the Electricity Supply Act, 1948 (for short, 'the Supply act') and the Rules framed thereunder, Section 76 M of the karnataka Town and Country Planning Act, 1961, (for short, 'the planning Act') and Condition 1 (a) of the Work Order dated

( 2 ) 05. 1994. A learned Single Judge of this Court without finding any merit in the above contentions raised by the Writ Petitioners, by his common order dated the 5th day of April 1999, has dismissed the Writ Petitions. 2. The events leading to filing of the Writ Petitions be noted briefly, in the first instance and they are as follows.

( 3 ) WIDIA is a company incorporated under the provisions of the Companies Act and it is engaged in the manufacture of