1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the Bihar State Electricity Board.

2. The petitioner has approached this Court for a direction to the respondent Bihar State Electricity Board, now the Bihar State Power (Holding) Company Limited, to grant new electric domestic connection to the petitioner.

3. The petitioner claims to have become the owner of the property on the basis of a compromise petition filed in a title suit for partition of property between the father of the petitioner and others, pursuant to which a final decree was drawn up on 25.7.2003. Subsequently the father of the petitioner died in the month of July, 2006. After the death of the father of the petitioner the petitioner decided to shift to her own house along with her children and accordingly applied for a domestic electric connection before the respondent Board on 2.3.2012 having completed all the formalities on her account. The petitioner having not got the electric connection has approached this Court.

4. In the counter affidavit filed on behalf of the Board the stand taken is that the premises were inspected by the Junior Electrical Engineer who informed that on the said premi