ISLAMABAD: The Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi Bench has taken serious notice of prolonged and frequent electricity shutdowns in a private housing society, giving four weeks time to the Ministry of Energy (Power Division) to address the residents’ issue.

Justice Jawad Hassan issued the order while disposing of a constitutional petition filed by the housing society against the Ministry of Water and Power, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra), and other respondents.

The petition challenged the repeated power outages carried out under the pretext of ‘maintenance’, which according to the residents had become a routine, depriving them of their fundamental rights.

Represented by Advocate Tahir Jamil Butt, the society argued that electricity is a basic necessity of life and its denial amounts to a violation of Article 9 of the Constitution, which guarantees the right to........

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