( 1 ) THIS is an application under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for the issue of a writ' of certiorari for quashing a notice dated the 16th December 1961 given under Section 6 of the Indian Electricity Act, 1910, (hereinafter referred to as the act), by the Madhya Pradesh Electricity Board, Jabalpur, to the petitioner Company requiring the Company to sell its electrical undertaking at Neemuch including the distribution lines, transmission lines and all other equipment but excluding the generating plant, to the Board by 1st January 1963 at a price to be determined in accordance with Sub-section (4) of Section 7-A of the Act, and to deliver possession of the undertaking etc. , to the Board on 1st January 1963.

( 2 ) THE petitioner is a limited liability company holding a licence for the supply of electri- city at Neemuch. The licence was granted on 8th October 1948 under the gwalior Electricity Act, Sam vat-1995. On 2nd May 1961, the Company filed in this court an application (M. P. No. 126 of 1961) under Article 226 of the Constitution for the issue of a writ of certiorari for quashing a direction made by the Government on 14th April 1961 to the petitioner C