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P/061/2017 Sri. Chacko Varghese, Thiruvananthapuram.
The appellant is a consumer of electricity in LTIV tariff under the Beach Electrical Section Office of the KSEBL at Thiruvananthapuram with consumer number 10279. The Complaint is against the short assessment demand dated 18-08-2010 issued by the Assistant Engineer for an amount of Rs. 98,481/- towards arrears of electricity charges for the period 6/2004 to 10/2004 on the basis of a Audit report of the Regional Audit Officer. Challenging the above demand dated 18-08-2010, the appellant submitted a complaint CC No 276 of 2010 before the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Thiruvananthapuram which was dismissed as per Order dated 01-11-2016 as not maintainable before that Forum without prejudice to file it before proper Forum for adjudication.. So the appellant had approached the Hon’ble CGRF Kottarakkara by filing a petition in OP No. 275/2016. The Forum quashed the short assessment bill for Rs. 98,481/- and directed the respondent to revise the bill from 07/2004 to 10/2004 on the basis of 3 months average consumption from 11/2004 to 01/2005. Aggrieved against this, the appellant has submitted this appeal petition before this Authority. From the analysis done and the Findings and conclusions arrived at, I take the following decisions. The respondent has failed to replace the faulty meter for quite some months and even after its replacement in 09/04 and getting the true average consumption, failed to reassess the consumer subsequently. In the case of assessment done for the Industrial unit, pertaining to the period of 06/2004 to 11-09-2004, it is seen that the consumer was being billed with an average energy consumption of 10360 units per month. Later, after changing the faulty meter, the average energy consumption was obtained as 15853 units per month, as per Reg. 33(2) of T & C of supply. Accordingly the respondent has raised a bill for the meter faulty period of 06/2004 to 09/2004, with the difference of 27892 units. It is decided that the total assessment done for the disputed meter faulty period from 01-06-2004 to 11-09-2004 by the Respondent, has to be revised taking the average of previous six months consumption as 14687 units instead 15853 units and the actual consumption in the new meter for the remaining days of 09/2004. The respondent is directed to revise the bill as decided above and shall issue to the consumer with thirty days time (due date) given for making the payment. The consumer is also eligible for installments, if requested for, and the respondent may allow the same. No interest is payable by the consumer up to the due date of the revised bill as ordered now. But the consumer needs to pay the applicable interest for the installments from the due date of the revised bill, to the date of actual payment of installments. Having concluded and decided as above, it is ordered accordingly. The order dated 18-05-2017 of CGRF (SR) in OP No. 275/2016 is set aside. No order on costs.

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