Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:78975-DB Court No. - 40 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 12137 of 2025 Petitioner :- Smt. Yasmeen Khan Respondent :- The Managing Director Paschimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited And Another Counsel for Petitioner :- Rakesh Kumar Mishra Counsel for Respondent :- Pranjal Mehrotra Hon'ble Shekhar B. Saraf,J. Hon'ble Dr. Yogendra Kumar Srivastava,J. Heard Sri Rakesh Kumar Mishra, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and Sri Pranjal Mehrotra, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the Electricity Distribution Corporation. This is a writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, wherein the petitioner has challenged the impugned demand notice dated March 07, 2025, issued by the respondent No. 2, for recovery of a sum to the tune of Rs.1,53,545/-. Further, the petitioner, by way of the present writ petition, has sought a direction to the respondents restraining them from adopting any coercive measures against the petitioner, pursuant to the aforesaid demand notice. Counsel appearing for the Electricity Distribution Corporation, submits that a provisional assessment order has been passed on October 20, 2023, a copy whereof has been handed over to the counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner. It is further submitted that no final assessment order has been passed till date. In light of the above, the impugned demand notice dated March 7, 2025, is quashed and set aside with liberty granted to the petitioner to file an objection/reply to the provisional assessment, within a period of two weeks from date. Once the objection to the provisional assessment is filed, the authority concerned is directed to pass an order in accordance with law, after granting an opportunity of hearing to the petitioner. With the aforesaid directions, the writ petition is disposed of. Order Date :- 14.5.2025 Arun K. Singh [Dr. Y.K. Srivastava, J.] [Shekhar B. Saraf, J.] Digitally signed by :- ARUN KUMAR SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad