Electricity bill -- Final bill - Complainant was paying card bill @ Rs. 40 per month and paid Rs. 506 upto February, 1992 - Raising of outstanding bill for Rs. 4436/ - Complainant does not deny that she is not entitled to pay towards final bill amount - Extracts of the ledger supports to the stand taken by OPs/appellants that the amount paid by complainant on card value or..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(1)(g) , 2(1)(r) -- Electricity bill - Electricity supply - Theft of electricity - The meter was installed on the pole located outside the house of the complainant - Merely because during checking there was no pulse blinking it would not amount to tampering of the meter - It was the duty of the OP to take care of the meter installed..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 3, Electricity Act, 2003, Section 173 , 174 -- Additional remedy - Jurisdictional bar - Theft of energy - From the evidence adduced on record it is not established that the complaint was indulging in committing theft of energy during the inspection of the meter carried out by the officials of the OP - The question of ousting the..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(1)(g), Electricity Act, 2003, Section 152 -- Electricity theft - The procedure adopted by the Assessing Officer has taken away the rights of the complainant of fair opportunity of hearing and to participate in the assessment of theft of energy made against her and compounding proceedings taken on the basis of the checking report -..........
Electricity disconnection -- Compensation - The appellant - Board have issued instructions that no house owner or occupant can be granted electric connection if his house is underneath the 66 KV or 11 KV power line - Held that judicial Courts cannot direct the grant of electric connection in violation of the instructions of the appellants - Since the appellant have..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(1)(g), Electricity Act, 2003, Section 56 -- Sales circular No. 27/96 - Electricity bill - Sundry charges - Demand made by OPs on the basis of objection raised by the Audit Party - OPs were duty bound to supply the necessary details of the audit report and to give a proper notice in terms of the Sales Circular which it has not..........
Electricity theft -- In the checking report the M&T and other seals of the meter were found to be in order - Only cover was found suspected to be tampered with and the rivets were found open - The meter was removed and taken into possession with the request to get the meter tested from the M&T Laboratory - No test report of the M&T placed on record - OP was duty bound to..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(1)(g), Electricity Act, 2003, Section 135 , 152 -- Electricity theft - Compounding notice - On the basis of checking report - Not the case of the OP that when the notice in question was issued to the complainant, any criminal case was registered against him - Assessing Officer, at the first instance passed the order assessment..........
Electricity bill -- Electric meter dead - Respondent had lodged complaint against the working of meter - It was duty of the appellants to get it tested from the M.E. Lab or it should have been sent to the Chief Electrical Inspector for its analysis and examination - The appellants have not proved any foul act on the part of respondents to make one phase of the meter dead -..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(1)(g), Electricity Act, 1910, Section 22(b), Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Cold Storage Act, 1976, Section 23 -- Cold storage - Electricity supply - Non - availability of continuous supply - Damage to the stored potatoes - Claim for damages - Held that in view of terms/conditions and the storage being connected to rural feeder, the..........
