| The appellant, Sri Abdul Khader K.P. is a tenant of the premises having service connection with consumer No. 36685 under Electrical Section, Chelari. The service connection was registered in favour of Smt. Mariyam P.M., Ayisha Nivas, Mele Chelari, under LT VII A tariff for construction purpose on 08-07-2014 with a connected load of 2799 Watts. On 26-05-2015, the officials of KSEB Limited conducted an inspection in the premises of the appellant and it was found some irregularities in the classification of tariff. Based on the inspection, the appellant was issued with a short assessment bill amounting to Rs. 56,675.00 on 27-05-2015 under LT VI F tariff for the period from 8/2014 to 5/2015, as per Section 126 of Electricity Act, 2003.
Aggrieved against this, the appellant approached the Assistant Engineer, Electrical Section, Chelari by filing a complaint and the same was disposed of by revising the provisional assessment to Rs. 43,952.00 and issued a final order accordingly. Still aggrieved with the decision, the appellant filed a complaint before the CGRF, Northern Region, Kozhikode. The CGRF dismissed the petition vide order dated 27-10-2015 by holding that the case is not maintainable in the Forum as the disputed bill was issued as per Section 126 of the Electricity Act, 2003. Against decisions of the CGRF, the appellant has approached this Authority with this appeal petition on 26-11-2015.
The action on the part of respondent is without complying with legal formalities amounts to arbitrariness and denial of natural justice. Hence the penal bill issued for Rs. 43,952.00 is hereby quashed. Appeal is admitted. Order of CGRF in OP No. 49/2015-16 dated 07-10-2015 is set aside. No order as to costs. |
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P/175/2015 Sri Abdul Khader A. P., Malappuram. 