| The appellant Sri Divyanandan is a tenant of the premises having service connection with consumer No. 34732 under Electrical Section Chelari. The service connection was registered in favour of Sri. Prasobhan, Anchil House, Parabilpeedika. On 21-05-2015, the officials of KSEB Limited conducted an inspection in the premises of the appellant and detected a total load of 1250 Watts. Based on the inspection, the appellant was issued with a provisional bill amounting to Rs. 16,814.00 under LT VII A tariff on 22-05-2015 towards the tariff misuse as per Section 126 of Electricity Act 2003.
Aggrieved against this, the appellant 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 as the penal bill disputed in the subject was issued vide Section 126 of the Electricity Act 2003. Against the decisions of the CGRF, the appellant has approached this Authority with this appeal petition on 01-12-2015.
The action on the part of respondent without complying with the legal formalities amounts to arbitrariness and denial of natural justice. Hence the penal bill issued for Rs. 16,814.00 is quashed. Appeal is admitted. CGRF order in OP No. 51/2015-16 dated 27-10-2015 is set aside. No order as to costs. |
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P/178/2015 Sri Divyanandan Malappuram. 