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| The appellant is having an electric connection with Consumer No. 9013 of Electrical Section, Kayamkulam East for running his wholesale hardware shop named HHYS Infra Mart under LT VII A commercial tariff. While so, on 07-07-2016, the APTS of KSEBL conducted an inspection in the premises 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 short assessment bill, assessing for 831 days, when the meter was found recording less than the actual, so as to recover the unrecorded portion of energy, for Rs. 7,50,688/-. The consumer filed objection before the Assessing officer, the Asst. Engineer, against the said assessment. The appellant approached the Hon'ble High Court filing W.P. (C) No. 26548/2016 and the Hon'ble High Court directed the respondent to consider the reply filed by the appellant and pass appropriate order after hearing the appellant. Being not satisfied with the decision of the Assistant Engineer, the consumer approached the CGRF, Central, Ernakulam, with Petition No. 138/2016-17 and the Forum disposed of the petition with a direction to revise the short assessment by limiting the period of assessment as 24 months vide its order dated 9th May 2017. Aggrieved by the decision, the appellant has submitted the Appeal petition before this Forum. From the findings and conclusions arrived at as detailed above, I decide to set aside the short assessment bill amounting to Rs. 7,50,688/- and the revised short assessment bill for Rs. 6,62,965/- issued to the appellant. The respondent is directed to revise the bills for the consumption for the period of 24 months prior to the inspection dated 07-07-2016 by taking an average consumption of 6407 units i.e. the average consumption of 08/2016, 09/2016 and 10/2016. Accordingly the respondent shall raise a bill for the meter faulty period from 08-07-2014 to 07-07-2016, with the difference of (153768–129969) = 23799 units and issue the revised bill to the consumer within fifteen days. The excess amount collected, if any, shall be refunded by adjusting it in consumer’s future bills. Applicable interest, for the excess amount so collected, shall also be refunded to the consumer. |
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