M. Y. Eqbal, J.

This appeal by the appellant-Jharkhand State Electricity Board is directed against the judgment dated 01.02.2007 passed in WPC No.109 of 2007 whereby learned Single Judge held that the action of the appellants in disconnecting the electric connection in the premises of respondent( writ petitioner) is illegal, arbitrary and violative of principle of natural justice and further directed to restore the petitioner’s electric supply forthwith.

2. The facts of the case lie in a narrow compass : Respondent is a small scale industry manufacturing M.S. Steel ingots at Adityapur Industrial Area, Adityapur, Jamshedpur. Respondent entered into an agreement with the Jharkhand State Electricity Board( in short ‘Electricity Board’) for supply of electric energy having a contract demand of 1200 KVA. Subsequently, the meter of the respondent became defective which was replaced by the Board on 7.10.06. On 5.12.06, a team of five senior officials of the Board made inspection and prepared meter reading report. All the old seal bits of the Door, Meter Box and T.P. were removed and new seal bits were affixed. Again a team of Officers inspected the respondent’s premises on 03.1.