HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NAGESH BHEEMAPAKA WRIT PETITION No. 12304 OF 2024

O R D E R:

Petitioner is a private limited company incorporated under the provisions of the Companies Act, 1956. It has established a composite industrial unit (induction furnace and re-rolling) in Survey Nos. 21 to 24 of Gunded Village, Balanagar Mandal, Mahaboobnagar District and are engaged in the manufacture of M.S. Ingots, M.S. Rods, etcetera for which purpose, they obtained a High Tension Service Connection bearing No. MBN-719 from the 3^rd respondent. Petitioner is stated to be availing power at 33 KV voltage level from the 3^rd respondent.

The case of petitioner is that it is a scheduled consumer of the 2^nd respondent distribution company, a deemed licensee under the Provisions of the Electricity Act, 2003 (for short, ‘the Act’). The Scheduled Consumers are those, who avail power from the 2nd respondent source and also from other sources both intra or inter-state purchases by using the Distribution Lines etcetera of the 2nd respondent. Section 42 of the Act obligates the distribution companies like the 2^nd respondent to allow to use open access corridor to its scheduled consumers i.e. to draw power purchased