Court No. - 40

Case :- WRIT - C No. - 15139 of 2022

Petitioner :- Amna Khatoon

Respondent :- U.P. Power Corporation Limited And 3 Others

Counsel for Petitioner :- Anand Mohan Pandey,Krishan Mohan Pandey

Counsel for Respondent :- Madan Mohan Chaurasisa,Anubhav

Singh,Mahboob Ahmad

Hon'ble Siddhartha Varma,J.

Hon'ble Vikas Budhwar,J.

Rejoinder affidavit filed today is taken on record.

This petition has been filed against an order of the Electricity Consumer

Grievance Reddressal Forum, Kanpur dated 9.11.2021, by which one Rajan

Singh has been given an electricity connection in the premises being House No.

41-C, Naya Kazi Kheda, Harjendra Nagar, Kanpur Nagar and a further order has

been passed that a recovery be made from Amna Khatoon, who was the widow

of the earlier occupant.

Learned counsel for Respondent no.2, 3 and 4 on the strength of the averments

made in the counter affidavit has sought to raise preliminary objection regarding

the fact that when the order under challenge has been passed under Clause 7.10

(i) of the U.P. Electricity Supply Code, 2005 (hereinafter referred to as the

'Code'), then the petitioner has an alternate efficacious remedy to prefer an

appeal b