Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:48673-DB Court No. - 2 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 7957 of 2025 Petitioner :- Vaibhav Verma Minor Thru. His Mother Legal Guardian Anjali Lodhi Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Its Prin. Secy. Deptt. Of Energy Lko. And 4 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Nishant Srivastava,Vivek Kumar Singh Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Aprajita Bansal Hon'ble Mrs. Sangeeta Chandra,J. Hon'ble Brij Raj Singh,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned Standing Counsel for the State Respondents and Sri Karan Agarwal, Advocate holding brief of Sri Aprajita Bansal, learned counsel for the respondents no. 2 to 4. 2. This writ petition has been filed with the following prayers:- "1. Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of Mandamus commanding the O.P. No. 2 & 3 to immediately direct the O.P. No. 4 to restore and provide the Electricity Connection over the House No. 643-B/8 KHA, Beligarad, Sector P, Aliganj, District Lucknow, which is till date recorded in the name of Petitioners grandfather namely Late Ram Adhar S/o Late Mahabeer Prasad, a joint Hindu Family Property. 2. Issue a writ order in the nature of mandamus commanding the Opposite Party No. 4 to decide the representation (Annexure No. 5) of the Petitioner through her mother legal guardian." 3. In view of the order proposed to be passed issuance of notice to the respondent no. 5 is dispensed with. 4. It has been submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner is a minor aged about 10 years and has come before this Court through his mother/legal guardian, namely, Anjali Lodhi. His father, namely, Prashant Verma has sold off the joint family property, which was recorded in the name of the grandfather of the petitioner without any partition and without permission from their coparceners, to the opposite party no.5. The father of the petitioner is an alcoholic person. The mother of the petitioner being a legal guardian of the petitioner has also approached the Civil Judge (Senior Judge), Lucknow, but there is an objection regarding the Court fees paid, and therefore, the same has been registered as Misc. Case No. 788 of 2025 for declaring the sale deed dated 03.03.2025 as fraudulent. There is an additional prayer for permanent injunction in the said Suit, which is pending. In the meantime, the respondents have disconnected the electricity connection from the house in question on an application made by the petitioner's father, who is an alcoholic person. The petitioner's mother has made an application before the respondents for fresh electricity connection, which has not been considered. 4. Accordingly, this writ petition is disposed of with a direction to the respondents no. 4 to consider the application of the mother of the petitioner strictly in accordance with the rules within a period of four weeks from the date a copy of this order is produced before him. Order Date :- 20.8.2025 Darpan Sharma Digitally signed by :- DARPAN SHARMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench