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 P/57/2017 Sri. Ajimon S., Kollam 
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| The appellant is an industrial consumer under LT IV A tariff in Electrical Section, Puthoor vide Cons No. 9018, with a connected load of 108 kW. The appellant is running a granite crushing unit in the premises. The APTS Unit of Kollam conducted an inspection in the premises on 22-07-2016 along with Sub Engineer of Electrical Section, Puthoor and found that the energy used in one phase (out of 3 phases) was not recording in the meter. Accordingly, the appellant was served with a provisional short assessment bill, assessing for the period from 07/2014 to 06/2016, when the meter was found recording less than the actual, so as to recover the unrecorded portion of energy, for Rs. 4,62,368/-. The consumer lodged complaint before the Assistant Engineer, the Assessing Officer on 30-07-2016, against the said assessment on 27-07-2016 and it was finalized the provisional amount assessed, on 22-09-2016, after conducting a hearing by the Assistant Engineer. Being not satisfied with the decision of the Assistant Engineer, the consumer approached the CGRF, Kottarakkara, with Petition No. OP 262/2016 and the Forum upheld the final bill issued and directed to remit the amount. Aggrieved by the decision, the appellant has submitted the appeal petition before this Forum. From the conclusions arrived at as detailed above, I decide to set aside the short assessment bill amounting to Rs. 2,99,855/- issued to the appellant. The respondent is directed to revise the bills for the consumption of the period from 09/12/2015 to 22-07-2016 by taking an average consumption of 7360 units i.e. the average consumption of 08/2016, 09/2016 and 10/2016 and issue the revised bill to the consumer within fifteen days. Having concluded and decided as above it is ordered accordingly. The Appeal Petition filed by the Consumer is allowed as ordered and stands disposed of as such. The order of CGRF in OP No. 262/2016-17 dated 30-03-2017 is modified to this extent. No order on costs. |
| P/42/2017 Sri. Joy S., Kottarakkara
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| The appellant is an industrial consumer under LT IV A tariff in Electrical Section, Valakom vide Cons No. 8864, with a contract demand of 98 kW. The appellant is running a granite crushing unit in the name and style "Povottu Granites". The APTS Unit of Kollam conducted an inspection in the premises on 23-07-2016 along with Sub Engineer of Electrical Section, Valakom and found that the energy used in one phase (out of 3 phases) was not recording in the meter. Accordingly, the party was served with a provisional short assessment bill, assessing for the period from 08/2014 to 07/2016, when the meter was found recording less than the actual, so as to recover the unrecorded portion of energy, for Rs. 5,93,588/-. The consumer lodged complaint before the Assessing officer, the Asst. Engineer, against the said assessment on 02-08-2016 and it was finalized the provisional amount assessed, on 22-09-2016, after conducting a hearing by the Assistant Engineer on 23-08-2016. Being not satisfied with the decision of the Assistant Engineer, the consumer approached the CGRF, Kottarakkara, with Petition No. OP 259/2016 and the Forum upheld the final bill issued and directed to remit the amount without interest in 10 instalments vide its order dated 14-03-2017. Aggrieved by the decision, the appellant has submitted the appeal petition before this Forum. In view of the above observations, it is hereby ordered that the short assessment bill for Rs. 5,93,588/- issued stands cancelled. However, it is made clear that the respondent is directed to reassess the appellant for the period from 02/2015 to 23-07-2016 by taking 50% of the recorded consumption from 2/2015 to 23-07-2016. The order dated 14-03-2017 of CGRF Kottarakkara in No. OP 259/2016 is set aside. Having concluded and decided as above, it is ordered accordingly. No order as to costs. |
| P/069/2017 Sri. Arun R Chandran, Ernakulam
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| The appellant represents M/s Indus Towers Ltd., a company providing passive infra structure service to telecommunication providers. The consumer number of the three phase service connection is 28074 having 40420 Watts connected load under LT VI F tariff and is under the jurisdiction of Electrical Section, Kongad. The appellant is paying the current charges regularly without any due or delay. But the respondent as per the invoice dated 23-12-2016 directed the appellant to remit an amount of Rs. 73,161/- being the short assessment based on the findings that the meter was sluggish during the period from 06/2015 to 01/2016. An objection against the demand was filed before the Assistant Engineer and he did not allow the petition and rejected without quoting any valid reason or regulations. So the appellant had approached the Hon’ble CGRF (NR) by filing a petition in OP No. 171/2016-17. The Forum quashed the short assessment bill for Rs. 73,161/- and directed the respondent to reassess based on an average consumption of 3840 units for the period from 01-06-2015 to 20-10-2015 and 4541 units from 21-10-2015 to 21-01-2016 vide order dated 10-05-2017. Aggrieved against this, the appellant has submitted this appeal petition before this Authority. From the conclusions arrived at as detailed above, I decide to set aside the short assessment bill amounting to Rs. 73,161/- issued to the appellant. The respondent is directed to revise the bills for the consumption of the period from 01-06-2015 to 21-01-2016 by taking an average consumption of 3840 units and issue the revised bill to the consumer within fifteen days. Having concluded and decided as above it is ordered accordingly. The Appeal Petition filed by the Consumer is allowed as ordered and stands disposed of as such. The order of CGRF in OP No. 171/2016-17 dated 10-05-2017 is modified to this extent. No order on costs. |
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