By the Court.—Heard Shri B.C. Rai, learned counsel for the petitioners in all the writ petitions. Shri Pankaj Kumar Shukla appears for the Pashchimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Ltd. & Anr. (PVVNL), the successor of U.P. State Electricity Board and U.P. Power Corporation Ltd.

2. M/s Raman Ispat (P) Ltd., a private limited company registered under the Companies Act, 1956 filed the Writ Petition No. 27290 of 2008 with a prayer to restrain the Executive Engineer, Electricity Urban Distribution Division-1, PVVNL, Muzaffar Nagar from disconnecting the power supply of the petitioner company (service connection No. LP-38) on account of the demand of arrears of electricity charges, outstanding against Singh Alloys (P) Ltd. and further to restrain the Executive Engineer-respondent No. 2 from encashing cheque No. 501910 dated 31.5.2008 amounting to Rs. 50,34,016/- drawn on HDFC Bank, Muzaffar Nagar. By the second prayer the petitioner sought information from the Executive Engineer-respondent No. 2 to provide details under which by the order dated 26.5.2008 the petitioner company was forced to submit the cheque of Rs. 50,34,016/- against electricity charges due to Singh Alloys Pvt. Ltd.

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