Ram Shankar v. Madhyanchal Vidyut Viran Nigam Ltd. Thru. Managing Director Lucknow and 3 Others

Court No. - 3 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 9931 of 2023 Petitioner :- Ram Shankar Respondent :- Madhyanchal Vidyut Viran Nigam Ltd. Thru. Managing Director Lucknow And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Umesh Pratap Singh,Anju Tripathi Counsel for Respondent :- Manish Jauhari,C.S.C. Hon'ble Vivek Chaudhary,J. Hon'ble Manish Kumar,J. Heard learned counsel for petitioner, learned Standing Counsel for the State and Sri Manish Jauhari, learned counsel respondents/Corporation. Petitioner has approached this Court challenging the demand notice dated 03.02.2023 issued by the respondent no.2/Executive Engineer, Vidyut Gramin/Nagariyea Vidyut Khand, Madhyanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited. Learned counsel for petitioner states that there is a dispute with regard to correctness of the bill and he has also moved a representation before the respondent no.2. Learned counsel for petitioner submits that grievance of petitioner would be substantially met in case representation of petitioner for the said purposes is considered and decided in a time bound manner. Learned Standing Counsel and learned counsel for respondents/Corporation have no objection to the same. In view thereof, petitioner is permitted to make a fresh detailed representation to respondent no.2/Executive Engineer, Vidyut Gramin/Nagariyea Vidyut Khand, Madhyanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited, raising all his grievance, annexing therewith a copy of this writ petition along with annexures and all the documents in support of his claim within a period of ten days from today along with a certified copy of this order. In case such a representation is moved by petitioner, respondent no.2, shall consider and decide the same in accordance with law by a reasoned and speaking order within a period of three weeks from the date a certified copy of this order along with representation is placed before him. The demand against the petitioner shall be subject to further orders to be passed by the respondent no.2. In case of failure to file representation along with a certified copy of this order, the benefit of this order will not be available to the petitioner. With the aforesaid directions, present writ petition is disposed of. . (Manish Kumar, J.) (Vivek Chaudhary, J.) Order Date :- 9.11.2023 Arjun/- High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench