IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD R/SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 1668 of 2026 ========================================================== RAMESHBHAI JESANGBHAI KOLI Versus STATE OF GUJARAT & ORS. ========================================================== Appearance: KRISHNAN M GHAVARIYA(8133) for the Petitioner(s) No. 1 MS ASHLESHA M PATEL(6127) for the Petitioner(s) No. 1 MR NIKUNJ KANARA AGP for the Respondent(s) No. 1,2,4,5 ========================================================== CORAM:HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANIRUDDHA P. MAYEE Date : 06/02/2026 ORAL ORDER 1. The present writ petition is filed praying for appropriate writ, order or direction to the learned Collector to decide the application made by the petitioner dated 17.12.2025 and also restraining the respondent No.3 from laying down the underground transmission cables within the limits of village Tappar. 2. In the present case, the respondent No.3 – Gujarat Energy Transmission Corporation Ltd. is undertaking the work of laying down of underground electric transmission lines from the Tappar dam. Appropriate permissions have been taken. No Objection of the Gram Panchayat, Tappar has also been obtained and thereafter, the underground transmission lines are being laid by p. 1 the respondent No.3, which is passing through the village Tappar. The petitioner is a resident of village Tappar. 3. Upon a query being asked by the Court as to how the said work is prejudicial to the petitioner, the learned advocate for the petitioner could not point out any specific prejudice. He submits that due to the digging work being carried out, the people of the village are inconvenienced and the roads of the village are being destroyed. Even the road opposite the village temple has been dug up substantially and there is also a damage to the water pipelines. The petitioner in the present case could not point out any prejudice caused to him nor any material is placed to show as to how the petitioner is materially affected by such work. Even the transmission lines are not passing through the land of the petitioner. The prayers prayed for and the grounds raised in the present writ petition are frivolous and are in the nature of creating obstacles in the onging work being undertaken by the respondent No.3. The present Special Civil Application is devoid of merits and is accordingly dismissed. No order as to costs. (ANIRUDDHA P. MAYEE, J.) KAUSHIK D. CHAUHAN p. 2 Original copy of this order has been signed by the Hon'ble Judge.