Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:14054-DB Court No. - 9 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 2198 of 2025 Petitioner :- Akhtar Jahan Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Energy Deptt. Lko. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Chandra Bhanu Singh,Rajesh Kumar Gupta Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Aprajita Bansal Hon'ble Mrs. Sangeeta Chandra,J. Hon'ble Ajai Kumar Srivastava-I,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned C.S.C. for the State Respondents and Sri Karan Agarwal, Advocate holding brief of Ms. Aprajita Bansal, learned counsel for the respondents no. 2 to 5. 2. This writ petition has been filed with the following main prayer:- "(i) issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus thereby commanding and directing the opposite parties to reconnect the electric connection of the petitioner bearing A/c No. 5721140100 which was in the name of husband of petitioner namely Iqram son of Abdul Hakeem resident of Village- Khalispur, Kakori, Lucknow." 3. It has been submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner's husband had an electricity connection in his name and he died, thereafter, the petitioner made an application on 23.01.2024 to the Junior Engineer of the Electricity Division concerned, but till date such application for the connection to be transferred in her name has not been entertained. On the other hand, the Electricity Department raided the premises on 04.01.2025 and has raised a bill of Rs.1,50,000/-. 4. Sri Karan Agarwal, Advocate holding brief of Ms. Aprajita Bansal, learned counsel for the respondents no. 2 to 4 and he has pointed out that the checking was done on 09.10.2024 in which unauthorized use of electricity/theft was found, a provisional assessment order was issued thereafter of Rs.1,24,426/- alongwith compounding fee and disconnection charges. The petitioner has been issued show cause notice on 08.11.2024 and she has also made a reply, which is under consideration. 5. Accordingly, this writ petition is disposed of with a direction to the opposite parties no. 4 to decide the representation of the petitioner/reply of the petitioner and pass an appropriate final assessment order before proceeding for coercive action against the petitioner within a period of six weeks from the date a certified copy of this order is produced before him Order Date :- 7.3.2025 Darpan Sharma Digitally signed by :- DARPAN SHARMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench