law: Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999 
  29. Landlord not to cut-off or withhold
  
  essential supply or service. 
  (1) No landlord, either himself or through any
  
  person acting or purporting to act on his behalf, shall, without just or
  
  sufficient cause, cut-off or withhold any essential supply or service enjoyed
  
  by the tenant in respect of the premises let to him.
  (2) A tenant in occupation of the premises
  
  may, if the landlord has contravened the provisions of sub-section
  (1), make an application to the court for a
  
  direction to restore such supply or service.
  (3) Having regard to the circumstances of a
  
  particular case the court, may, if it is satisfied that it is necessary to make
  
  an interim order, make such order directing the landlord to restore the
  
  essential supply or service before the date specified in such order, before
  
  giving notice to the landlord of the enquiry to be made in the application
  
  under sub-section (3) or during the pendency of such enquiry. On the failure of
  
  the landlord to comply with such interim order of the court, the landlord shall
  
  be liable to the same penalty as is provided for in sub-section (4).
  (4) If the court on inquiry finds that the
  
  tenant has been in enjoyment of the essential supply or service and that it was
  
  cut-off or withheld by the landlord without just or sufficient cause, the court
  
  shall make an order directing the landlord to, restore such supply or service
  
  before a date to be specified in the order. Any landlord who fails, to restore
  
  the supply or service before the date so specified, shall, for each day during
  
  which the default continues thereafter, be liable upon further directions by
  
  the court to that effect, to fine which may extend to one hundred rupees.
  (5) Any landlord, who contravenes, the
  
  provisions of sub-section (1), shall, on conviction, be punishable with
  
  imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with fine which may
  
  extend to one thousand rupees or with both.
  (6) An application under this section may be
  
  made jointly by all or any of the tenants of the premises situated in the same
  
  building.
  Explanation.- ln this section,-
  (a) essential supply or service includes
  
  supply of water, electricity, lights in passages and on staircases, lifts and
  
  conservancy or sanitary service;
  (b) withholding any essential supply or
  
  service shall include acts or omissions attributable to the landlord on account
  
  of which the essential supply or service is cut-off by the municipal authority
  
  or any other competent authority.
  (7) Without prejudice to the provisions of
  
  sub-sections (1) to (6) or any other law for the time being in force, where the
  
  tenant,-
  (a) who has been in
  
  enjoyment of any essential supply or service and the landlord has withheld the
  
  same, or
  (b) who desires to
  
  have, at his own cost, any other essential supply or service for the premises
  
  in his occupation, the tenant may apply to the Municipal or any other authority
  
  authorized in this behalf, for the permission or for supply of the essential
  
  service and it shall be lawful for that authority to grant permission for,
  
  supply of such essential supply or service applied for without insisting on
  
  production of a "No Objection Certificate" from the landlord by such
  
  tenant.