ORAL JUDGMENT

10/Dated: 25.08.2022 The instant intra-court appeal preferred under Clause-10 of Letters Patent is directed against the order/judgment dated 21.12.2021 passed by the learned Single Judge of this Court in W.P.(C) No.3650 of 2020, whereby and whereunder, the writ petition has been dismissed declining to pass positive direction to grant fresh electrical connection to the writ petitioner at the premises situated at Plot No.292, Toklo Road, 368, Near Sai Mandir, Chakradharpur on the ground of availability of efficacious remedy of filing a complaint before the Vidyut Upbhokta Shikayat Niwaran Forum (VUSNF).

2. The brief facts of the case, as per the pleading in the writ proceeding, required to be enumerated, are as hereunder:-

It is the case of the writ petitioner that he has purchased the premises in question on 03.02.2020 from one Pawan Kumar Agarwal. He had applied for fresh electrical connection on 02.06.2020 under commercial services (NDS-II) tariff for a contracted load of 10 KW to be supplied at 400V (three phase) by submitting all supporting documents as well as the requisite fee for the same. The aforesaid application, however, was rejected on 03.09.2020 on the ground