HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NAGESH BHEEMAPAKA WRIT PETITION No. 9460 OF 2025

O R D E R:

Petitioners claim to be the owners and possessors of the subject houses in Survey Nos. 119, 121, 119/1/10 and 119/1/28 in Ilapur Thanda Village, Ameenpur Mandal, Sanga Reddy District. It is their claim that they constructed the said houses by obtaining permission from Gram Panchayat, Ilapur Thanda and have been paying house tax regularly. They applied for domestic electricity connection to their respective houses, annexing thereto all the required documents, but respondents rejected the same on the ground that the Application lacks proper documents.

2. Learned counsel for petitioner Sri Ramavarapu Chandrasekhar Reddy submits that under Section 43(1) of the Electricity Act, 2003, a distribution licensee has a statutory duty to supply electricity to owner/ occupier of any premises located in the area of supply of electricity of the distribution license, if such owner or occupier of the premises applies for it and correspondingly every owner or occupier has a statutory right to apply for and obtain such supply from the distribution licensee. He cites instances (Writ Petitions No.

10250 and 16552 of 2024) whe