Shashibala Soni v. State of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Managing Director Vidhut Vitran Deptt. Lko. and 5 Others

Court No. - 3 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 9900 of 2023 Petitioner :- Shashibala Soni Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Managing Director Vidhut Vitran Deptt. Lko. And 5 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Shashank Agnihotri,Kuldeep Kaur,Rajesh Kumar Counsel for Respondent :- Manish Jauhari,C.S.C. Hon'ble Vivek Chaudhary,J. Hon'ble Manish Kumar,J.

¶1Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned Standing Counsel for the State and Sri Manish Jauhari, learned counsel for the respondent nos. 2 to 3.

¶2To the provisional assessment order of electricity made against the petitioner on the ground of theft, a reply was submitted by petitioner in the Office of the Executive Engineer concerned. Today, learned counsel for respondent corporation has placed before this Court the final assessment order dated

19.10.2023 raising the demand.

¶3A perusal of assessment order shows that the reply of petitioner is nowhere considered in the same. In reply petitioner had submitted that he is having valid electricity connection and no checking was conducted in presence of petitioner nor anything was recovered and the entire story of electricity theft is false. There is absolutely no consideration of reply of petitioner in the final assessment order. Hence, respondents are restrained from making any recovery on the basis of final assessment order.

¶4Petitioner is permitted to appear before the respondent no. 4 Executive Engineer, MVVNL, Electric Distribution Division Ayodhya within one week from today and again submit his reply. Thereafter respondent no.4 shall pass fresh assessment order within a period of two weeks after taking into consideration reply submitted by petitioner. Any final demand raised against petitioner shall be subject to said final assessment order passed by respondent no.4.

¶5With the aforesaid, the writ petition is disposed of. (Manish Kumar,J) (Vivek Chaudhary,J) Order Date :- 8.11.2023/Ashish High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench