law: Electricity Act, 2003 
  164. Exercise of
  
  powers of Telegraph Authority in certain cases.-
  The Appropriate
  
  Government may, by order in writing, for the placing of electric lines or
  
  electrical plant for the transmission of electricity or for the purpose of
  
  telephonic or telegraphic communications necessary for the proper co-ordination
  
  of works, confer upon any public officer, licensee or any other person engaged
  
  in the business of supplying electricity under this Act, subject to such
  
  conditions and restrictions, if any, as the Appropriate Government may think
  
  fit to impose and to the provisions of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 (13 of
  
  1885), any of the powers which the telegraph authority possesses under that Act
  
  with respect to the placing of telegraph lines and posts for the purposes of a
  
  telegraph established or maintained, by the Government or to be so established
  
  or maintained.