(Per: HONOURABLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE)

Date : 08-01-2026 The appellant, Mukesh Kumar Singh, has filed this Letters Patent Appeal challenging the order dated 12.02.2025 passed in C.W.J.C. No. 18577 of 2024. The appellant had approached this Court for quashing/setting aside and stay of Final Assessment Letter No. 962 dated 04.10.2024, passed by the Assistant Electrical Engineer, Electric Supply Sub-Division, Didarganj, Patna. The learned Single Judge, in the impugned order, has been pleased to hold that an efficacious alternative remedy of filing an appeal under Section 127 of the Electricity Act, 2003 against the final assessment order is available to the appellant and therefore the writ petition was not entertained.

2. Section 127 of the Electricity Act, 2003 reads as follows:-

"127. Appeal to appellate authority.-(1) Any person aggrieved by a final order made under section 126 may, within thirty days of the said order, prefer an appeal in such form, verified in such manner and be accompanied by such fee as may be specified by the State Commission, to an appellate authority as may be prescribed.

(2) No appeal against an order of assessment under sub-section (1) shall be entertained un