( 1 ) PETITIONER Modi Spinning and Weaving Mills Co. Ltd. Modi- nagar is a Public Limited company incorporated under the Indian Companies Act having its registered office at modinagar and is running a textile manufacturing unit. For the purposes of running its unit it gets its electrical energy from the U. P. State Electricity Board (hereinafter referred to as the board) under an agreement executed between the parties. The dispute in the present writ petition centres round the question as to whether the Board can disconnect the supply of electrical energy to the petitioners textile mills in exercise of its power u/ S. 24 of the Indian Electricity Act after the petitioners unit has been declared as a sick industrial company under the provisions of the sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act, 1985.

( 2 ) BRIEF admitted facts for the purposes of adjudication of the question raised in the present writ petition are that the petitioner had filed a Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 6915 of 1986 before the lucknow Bench of this Court wherein the petitioner had challenged the notification dated 28-1-1986. by means of which the respondent Board had revised the rates o