Electricity -- Minimum consumption charges - Power to fix - Word `Tariff' used in S.49 Electricity (supply) Act, 1948 includes the power to fix minimum consumption guarantee charges. (Electricity Supply Act, 1948 S.49)..........
Electricity -- Fresh connection - Refusal - Dues outstanding against firm of which petitioner was a partner - New connection was merely a device for running the old factory without paying the outstanding dues - Held, Board is justified to refuse the electricity connection to petitioner...........
Constitution of India, 1950, Article 226 -- Damages for injuries caused due to negligence of Electricity Board - Sufficient evidence on record - Held, petition is maintainable...........
Tort -- Negligence - Electrocution by low hanging high tension wire - Victim teen aged girl - Injuries sustained on various parts of body - Right hand amputated - Report of Assistant Electrical Inspector that accident happened due to gross negligence of employees of Electricity Board - Defence of Board totally untenable - Compensation of Rs.2 lacs allowed...........
Electricity -- Non-payment of bill - Disconnection - Board to cut off the supply of energy only if the consumer neglects to pay the charges for energy due from him and a notice in writing of not less than seven clear days is given to him. (Electricity Act, 1910, S.24)...........
Electricity -- Non payment of bill - Penal interest - Charges do not become payable as and when energy is consumed - They become payable only on service of a bill and from the date fixed therein - It is only if default is committed on the due date, that liability for penal interest is incurred. (Electricity Act, 1910, S.24)...........
Electricity -- Dispute as to payment of bill left for arbitration of committee - Committee reducing the amount and directing Board to issue a revised notice of demand - Liability for penal interest is cast only for the period subsequent to the due date on or before which this amount was payable (Electricity Act, 1910, S.24)...........
Electricity -- Tariff - Classification - Semi industrial unit like `ice candy' would attract applicability of the tariff higher than domestic purposes - Keeping in view the purpose for which electricity is consumed, classification between the consumers is justified and would not amount to discrimination between the consumers - Classification upheld...........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2, 14 -- Electricity - Arbitrary disconnection without any notice to the consumer - Violation of Electricity Act by the department - Huge business loss - Complainant held entitled to Rs.50, 000/- compensation and Rs.5, 000/- as costs...........
Electricity Act, 1910, Section 39 -- Prosecution not validly instituted - Petitioners liable to be acquitted...........
