Asok Kumar Ganguly, J.

This writ petition has been filed by the petitioner with a prayer for granting of a new AC. electric connection to the premises at 82, Belilious Lane, Howrah-1 (hereinafter called the said premises). The petitioner is staying in the said premises since childhood and is now is staying there with his family. In support of the said fact, the petitioner has disclosed various documents like letters of Municipal Authorities written in respect of the said premises which had been addressed to the petitioner. The petitioner has referred to three such letters written to him by the Howrah Municipal Corporation in respect of the said premises. The petitioner has also disclosed the telephone bill in respect of the said premises in his name and from the bill which has been annexed to the writ petition it appears that date of installation of the said telephone is sometime in the September, 1996. In the affidavit-in-reply filed in the proceeding by the petitioner, he has also disclosed a ration card in his name with the address of the said premises. On the basis of these documents the petitioner wants to show that he has been staying in the said premises for quite so