Electricity Act, 1910, Section 12, 19, 52 -- Suit for plaintiff seeking to restrain defendants from taking proposed supply of electricity and/or from carrying any work in that regard to suit property belonging to plaintiff - Held, Civil Court has jurisdiction to entertain the suit as filed...........
Electricity -- Circular No.26 of 1989 of Punjab Electricity Board - Dispute Settlement Committees constituted at Circle level and Zonal levels to ensure expeditious settlement of pending disputes - Dispute whether two meters installed in one premises in two names can be clubbed or not and bill issued on the basis of clubbing - Held, such disputes are covered by the term..........
Electricity -- Dispute in regard to tampering with meter and commission of fraud - Plaintiff took the matter to the Zonal Level Dispute Settlement Committee - Committee dismissed the objections - Suit for mandatory injunction directing the Board to restore his electricity connection - In the suit, no challenge made to the merits of the decision rendered by the Committee -..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 18, Rule 17-A -- Additional evidence - Copy of ration card, voter lists and the two bills of electricity copies of which are already on record could not be proved due to bona fide error on the part of the counsel - Definite prejudice will be caused to the plaintiff if he is not granted permission to prove these documents - Party should not..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 18, Rule 17A -- Additional evidence to produce ration card, voters lists and bills of electricity, copies of which already on record - Definite prejudice will be caused if not granted permission to produce these documents - Otherside not being taken by surprise nor authenticity of these documents can be doubted - Sufficient reasons not..........
Civil Procedure Code, Section 10 -- Stay of subsequently filed suit - Prayer made in earlier suit a negative prayer that Electricity Board should not grant any connection to defendants without hearing plaintiffs and in the subsequent suit filed by defendants prayer for installation of new connection - Points raised by defendants in subsequent suit cannot be said to be..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(1)(g), 14 -- Electricity Bill - Refund claimed by claimant of Rs.19,81,475/- due to showing the consumption atleast 7% more - Disputed question involved - such like disputes where technical experts can be examined, the only remedy is before the Civil Courts - Complaint dismissed with the liberty to the complainant to approach the..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2, 14 -- Electricity bill - Allegedly incorrect and exaggerated - Complaint dismissed by District Forum - Ground - That petitioner had instituted a civil suit - State Commission also dismissed the appeal - Held that the subject matter of the plaint and the complaint not identical - Findings of the Fora below on misapprehension of..........
Electricity -- Transmission lines laid without plaintiffs consent after plaintiff had already constructed portion of its sawmill - Transmission lines not laid under any approved scheme - Appellant Board cannot be said to have acted in accordance with provisions of the Electricity Act, 1910- High Court, rightly held that remedy of plaintiff was not to take recourse under..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 39, Rule 1, 2 -- Injunction sought restraining Electricity Board from construction of 132 KV Grid Sub Station on the land used as playground and for holding annual fair and from interfering with the exclusive enjoyment of the land by the village community - Land leased to Board by State -Alternative land provided adjacently for playground..........
