Ronojit Kumar Mitra, J.

This was an application for the issuance of a writ of Mandamus directing the respondent- Calcutta Electricity Supply Corporation Limited, to allot separate direct meters to each of the petitioners and all other intending unit holders within one week. The petitioners were the owners of shops at premises 46D, Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road (formerly Wellesly Street, Calcutta-16). It has been alleged on behalf of the petitioner that premises No. 46D consisted of three buildings comprising a building complex and subsequently that the entire building complex where the shop rooms were situate had been numbered by the Municipal Corporation of Calcutta initially as 46A and thereafter when the building had come up, there had been separate numbering as 46D, 46E and 46F. One Riddhi Properties & Investments (P) Ltd. of 1, British India Street, Calcutta, had promoted building No. 46D and had taken the electricity connection from the respondent No.1 in its own name. The shop rooms of the petitioners were contained in the premises No. 46D. It was alleged on behalf of the petitioners chat the entire building was receiving high tension electricity and though the petitioners d