Can You File a Writ Petition Against the Electricity Department for 33kV Line Damaging Your Land?

2023 0 Supreme(All) 212

Briefly stated undisputed facts of the present case are that the petitioners are the owner of the land over which a 33 KV electric line was installed by the respondent no.2. ... From perusal of the own stand taken by the respondent no.2, it is undisputed that 33 KV electricity line was installed in the year, 1995 without payment of any compensation to the land owners. ... That, before giving para-wise reply it is pertinent to point out certain facts ....

CA/WRIT/100/2017MARCH 19, 2019 Supply of electricity-Section 25(1) of Electricity Act, No. 20 of 2009- Right of owner or occupier to obtain electricity supplyThe petitioner made an application to the Ceylon Electricity Board to obtain a supply of electricity ... They explain the circumstances leading to the delay in supplying electricity to the premises of the Petitioner and conclude by stating that when the 1st Respondent was attempting to ins....

High Court of Rajasthan - Rajasthan High Court Principal Seat Jodhpur

Overhead Electricity Line changed. ... However, the land owner may be informed of the work to be executed. ... Section 10 does not contemplate notice to an owner or occupier of land to land owner is only to seek for payment of compensation (9 of 11)/span

2018 Supreme(Online)(All) 49

The case of the petitioner is that petitioner is the owner - in - possession and recorded tenure holder having valid title over the certain piece of land, whose khata numbers are also mentioned in para 2 of the writ petition. ... The Court has also stated that there is no need of acquiring any land as Corporation is also only making use of land for the purpose of stringing electricity line for which compensation is given for the damages caused. ... lawfully laid down ....

2023 0 Supreme(Guj) 286

It is also explained that electricity transmission is usually laid or crossed over agricultural land where minimum extent of land gets utilised for erecting towers and where agricultural activities are not prejudiced/obstructed in any manner. ... The decision to mark a route for laying an electric line is a highly specialized and technical. At that time, it is unrelated to any specific land owner. ... However, the land owner may be ....

2023 0 Supreme(Guj) 557

2.2 It is the case of the writ-applicant that the respondent no.2 proposes to erect an electric pole on the land of the writ applicant for the route of the electricity line for the project without hearing the writ-applicant. ... The writ-applicant herein is the owner and occupier of the land bearing Survey No.62 P2 and is aggrieved by the construction and erection of 66 KV Ambaradi S/S to 66 KV Khambala S/s Transmission l....

2015 Supreme(Online)(Bom) 50

... 33. ... made or application filed for change of the line or post by the occupier or the owner of the land. ... The notification reads thus: ... "INDUSTRIES, ENERGY AND LABOUR DEPARTMENT, Mantralaya, Mumbai 400 032, dated the 24th August, 2006. ... ELECTRICITY ACT, 2003. ... No. Misc. 06 / CR312 / NRG4. ... It gives no right to the telegraph authority other than that of user only in respect of the property under, over, along or across which a telegraph line p....

2016 0 Supreme(Mad) 3358

The said writ petition was filed by the appellant herein to shift/remove the electrical 33 kVA power overhead line, erected by the appellants-Tamil Nadu Electricity Board in the land belonging to him, causing prejudice to his interest in the property. ... kVA power line, since he had not mentioned 33 kVA power line in the prayer and hence he was forced to file another writ petition in W.P.No.1447 of 2007. ... These two entries are o....

2023 0 Supreme(AP) 879

Rule 3(1)(a) though stipulates that consent of the owner or occupier of any building or land is necessary for a licensee to carry out works, lay down or place any electric supply line or other works in, through or against, any building or on, over and under any land, however Rule 3(6) in clear terms ... The learned counsel would further submit that as per section 164 of the Indian Electricity Act, APTRANSCO would not require to either initiate proceedings for acquisition of land or to ....

2024 0 Supreme(Telangana) 165

department officials to not to entertain any application made by the petitioner herein for electricity connection, since petitioner illegally encroached upon the endowed land of the subject temple. ... It is submitted that the subject temple had addressed letter to the Electricity Department officials vide 9/SGMS/2023, Dt: 06.10.2023 requesting the electricity department officials to not to entertain any application made by the petitioner herein for electric....

2020 0 Supreme(Mad) 1789

6. It is also the stand of the respondents that on the directions of this Court, the possibility of exploring supply of single phase connection was considered and since there are only two sub-stations in and around the locality that are already saturated upto the peak point, there is no possibility of supplying single phase electricity to the project. Thus, again it has been reiterated that the matter can be resolved only if 400 sq.m. of land is provided by the appellant to enable the electricity department to set up a sub station of 33/11 KVA.

2017 0 Supreme(Del) 4458

Bihar State Electricity Board, (1995) 2 SCC 648 and has held as follows: “14. In the said case also the issue before Hon'ble High Court was that if there are electricity dues against the owner of premises who transfers the premises to new owner, can the new owner be compelled to pay the electricity dues of the previous owner and can the electricity department/company refuse to supply electricity to the premises for such nonpayment. The Hon'ble High Court has distinguished the judgment of the Hon'ble Supreme Court passed in the case of Isha Marbles vs. North Delhi Power Limi....

2017 0 Supreme(Mad) 3374

The order is under challenge at the instance of the son who originally filed the writ petition against the father. 1. The writ petition filed by the appellant to restrain the Electricity Board from giving service connection to the third respondent in the writ petition in W.P.No.7540 of 2013 was dismissed by the learned Single Judge on the ground that even as per the Electricity Code, connection could be given by the Department notwithstanding the objection raised by the neighbouring land owners.

2015 0 Supreme(Mad) 3561

2) Whether the consent is required under Section 12(2) of the 1910 Act, if the supply is effected for public purpose? 3) If prior consent from the land owner is not obtained, whether it would amount to depriving the person of his right to property?" Whether the consent of the land owner is necessary to place electricity line for transmission of electricity? In this regard, the learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that the words 'not dedicated to public use would only mean the land not dedicated to public use and not in reference to the work to be carried out by the....

2010 0 Supreme(Ker) 300

It has also been held that, if there is any objection regarding drawing of electric line, it is for the District Magistrate to consider the objection and pass final orders. Following the above verdict, a Division Bench of this Court has very recently held in Sukumaran P.G. vs. Power Grid Corporation Ltd. & Others (2010 (1) KHC 918) that in drawing of High Tension electric lines and erection of towers, the owner of the land has no right to disrupt the same, but for the right to file objections before the District Magistrate and to have the same considered and decided (as provided under sectio....