Thiru Justice M.S. Janarthanam, President—Jurisdictional facts as culled out from the materials placed on record may in brevity be referred to in rather a bid to understand the crux of the issue arising for consideration in this action.

2. One Mr. A.G. Swaminathan (com-plainant) was an erstwhile Post Master, retired from service on 31.7.1992. He belongs to downtrodden section of the community, namely, Adi Dravida. After his retirement, he has started a commercial venture in the name and style of Devi Welding Works at No. 2/351, Mambakkam Road, Medavakkam, Chennai. He commenced the said venture on 30.8.1993. He submitted two applications on 6.1.1993 to the Assistant Executive Engineer, Medavakkam, Chennai - 601 302 (opposite party) for getting service connections to his industrial unit. Of the two applications, one is for getting service connection for 1 H.P. power for running the other machineries. The other application is for one Kilo Watt Ampere (K.V.A.) equivalent to 2 H.P. for welding purposes. The purpose of submitting two applications for two independent service connections rather appears to be this : If one service connection is obtained for welding purposes and running