MADAN MAHTO Vs. B.S.E.BOARD

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD learned counsel for the parties.

(2.) IN this writ application the petitioner has prayed for issuance of appropriate direction upon the respondents to provide electric connection and supply electric energy in the premises of the petitioner being R.S. Plot No. 541, Khata No. 4 under Khawat No. 3 of Ranchi Municipal Corporation.

(3.) ON the aforesaid admitted facts, the question arises whether this Court in exercise of its extraordinary power under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India shall issue writ to the respondents to provide electricity to the petitioner. I am of the definite view that this extraordinary jurisdiction of the High Court is not meant for giving relief to the persons like the petitioner. The ratio decided by the Apex Court in the Isha Marbles case is not at all applicable in the facts of the present case. It is rather surprising that the petitioner purchased the building in 1994 and consumed electricity illegally and it was only after FIR was lodged against him, he applied to the Board for supply of electricity.