20.03.2025 Sl. No.64 akd W. P. A. 173 of 2025 [Sampa Sharma -Vs- The CESC Ltd. & Ors.]

Mr. Neil Basu … … for the petitioner Mr. Uday Sankar Bhattacharya Ms. Banani Bhattacharya … … for CESC Ltd.

Mr. Rabindranath Pal Mr. Kanailal Mandal … … for the State

1. Affidavit-of-service filed in court today be kept with the record.

2. The petitioner has preferred the present writ petitioner, being aggrieved by the non-grant of electricity connection to her tenanted premises by the respondent-CESC Ltd.

3. It is the case of the petitioner that her father was running a tea shop from a room situated at 69, Tollygunge Road, P.O. Tollygunge, P.S. Charu Market, Kolkata for over fifty years as a tenant of Late Jahar Lal Shaw. Subsequently, due to her father’s ill-health, the petitioner’s father had transferred his business in the name of the petitioner and presently the petitioner is running the said business for over 20 years. After the demise of Jahar Lal Shaw, respondent no.6 became the landlord. However, the landlord wanted to evict her father from the said premises and subsequently, had denied to accept the rent from the petitioner with an intent to oust the petitioner from her lawful possession wit