{"id":187155,"date":"2009-08-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/chanduka-hi-tech-steels-pvt-lt-vs-jharkhand-state-electricity-bo-on-13-august-2009"},"modified":"2016-02-11T07:34:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T02:04:05","slug":"chanduka-hi-tech-steels-pvt-lt-vs-jharkhand-state-electricity-bo-on-13-august-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/chanduka-hi-tech-steels-pvt-lt-vs-jharkhand-state-electricity-bo-on-13-august-2009","title":{"rendered":"Chanduka Hi-Tech Steels Pvt.Lt vs Jharkhand State Electricity Bo on 13 August, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Jharkhand High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Chanduka Hi-Tech Steels Pvt.Lt vs Jharkhand State Electricity Bo on 13 August, 2009<\/div>\n<pre>                   WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 5253 of 2003\n         An Application under Article 226 of the Constitution of India\n         Chanduka Hi-tech Steels Pvt. Ltd.                    ... ... Petitioner\n                                      - VERSUS -\n         1. The Jharkhand State Electricity Board\n         2. General Manager-cum-C.E., Jamshedpur\n         3. Electrical Executive Engineer, Electric Supply Circle, Jamshedpur\n         4. Electrical Executive Engineer (Commercial &amp; Revenue), Electric\n         Supply Circle, Jamshedpur\n         5. Electrical Superintending Engineer, Electric Supply Circle,\n         Jamshedpur...... ......                                          Respondents\n                                        ......\n         For the petitioner             : M\/s. M.S. Mittal, N.K.Pasari,\n         For the State                  : M\/s. V.K.Prasad, Gautam Rakesh\n                                        ......\n                                          PRESENT\n                  The Hon'ble Mr. Justice Amareshwar Sahay\n                                      JUDGMENT\n         C.A.V. On 11\/08\/2009                            Delivered on 13\/08\/2009\nAmareshwar Sahay, J.   The prayer of the petitioner is\n\n                       (A) For quashing the bill for the month of June, 2003 and\n\n                          onwards which have been raised during the period\n                          when the petitioner's meter became defective and has\n                          been   raised   on   the   basis   of   Annual   Minimum\n                          Guarantee Charges as the same is in violation of the\n                          various judgments of the Hon'ble High court that in\n                          respect of H.T. consumers the Annual Minimum\n                          Guarantee charges cannot be levied during the period\n                          when the meter is defective, specially in view of the\n                          fact that the petitioner is entitled to exemption from\n                          the payment of AMG charges.\n                       (B) For direction upon the Respondents to raise bills for\n\n                          June 2003 and onwards on the basis of 3 months\n                          average consumption prior to the June, 2003 when the\n                          meter became defective, i.e. average consumption for\n                          the months of March, April and May 2003.\n                       (C) For direction upon the Respondents to delete the\n\n                          delayed payment surcharge on the unpaid amount of\n                          bills for the months of June 2003 and onwards since,\n                          when the bills itself are wrong, there is no question of\n                          charging of any delayed payment surcharge on those\n                          amounts.\n                                                           W.P.(C) No. 5253 of 2003\n                              [2]\n\n2.          According to the petitioner, the arrears of bills for the\n\nmonths of June 2003 to October 2003 issued by the respondents\n\nElectricity Board on the basis of Minimum Guarantee charges are\n\nagainst the various judgments and orders passed by this Court and\n\nfurther that raising bills on the basis of Annual Minimum Guarantee\n\ncharges to H.T. consumer is against the provisions of 1993 Tariff.\n\nAccording to the petitioner, when the electric meter goes out of order\n\nor burnt or stopped or having ceased to function for any reason then\n\nthe bills has to be raised on the basis of previous three months\n\naverage as per Clause 16.8 of 1993 tariff.\n\n3.          The petitioner has placed reliance on the several orders\n\npassed by the several Single Benches of this Court and it is submitted\n\nthat the orders passed in W.P.(C) No. 5516 of 2001 in the case of\n\n\"M\/s. R.D. Alloys Pvt. Ltd. Vs. Jharkhand State Electricity Board and\n\nothers\" is fully applicable in the facts and circumstances of the\n\npresent case. The order passed in W.P.(C) No. 5516 of 2001 dated\n\n18\/03\/2002<\/pre>\n<p> has been annexed as Annexure-7 to the writ petition.<\/p>\n<p>4.          On the other hand, on behalf of the respondents<\/p>\n<p>Electricity Board it has been submitted that the impugned bill was<\/p>\n<p>raised on the basis of the provisions of 16.8 of the Tariff notification<\/p>\n<p>1993. Clause 16.8 of the Tariff notification reads as follows:-<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>                   &#8220;In the event of meter being out of order, i.e.<br \/>\n                   burnt\/stopped or having ceased to function for any<br \/>\n                   reason during any months, the consumption for<br \/>\n                   that month\/months shall be assessed on average<br \/>\n                   consumption of previous 3 months from the date of<br \/>\n                   meter   being    out   of     order    or     the      average<br \/>\n                   consumption for the corresponding three months of<br \/>\n                   the previous year or the consumption of the<br \/>\n                   minimum monthly guarantee which ever is highest.<br \/>\n                   Such    consumption    will    be     treated     as     actual<br \/>\n                   consumption for all practical purpose until meter is<br \/>\n                                                              W.P.(C) No. 5253 of 2003<br \/>\n                                      [3]<\/p>\n<p>                            replaced\/rectified. Fuel surcharge, Power factor<br \/>\n                            surcharge and Electricity duty shall be levied on<br \/>\n                            consumption on so calculated.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>     5.              It is submitted that under Clause 16.8 of the Tariff<\/p>\n<p>     notification billing has to be made by three modes of calculation and<\/p>\n<p>     in the present case the 3rd mode Minimum Base Charge being the<\/p>\n<p>     highest has been taken for the purpose of raising bill under Clause<\/p>\n<p>     16.8 of the Tariff and, as such, there is no infirmity in the bills raised<\/p>\n<p>     to the petitioner.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>     6.              On perusal of the orders passed by the learned Single<\/p>\n<p>     Bench of this Court in W.P.(C) No. 5516 of 2001, which has been<\/p>\n<p>     annexed in the writ petition, I find that in that case also the points<\/p>\n<p>     raised by the petitioners and the objection raised by the respondents<\/p>\n<p>     electricity Board were the same as has been raised in the present writ<\/p>\n<p>     petition and, therefore, in my view, since on consideration of facts and<\/p>\n<p>     relying on the earlier decision of Patna High Court, when a view has<\/p>\n<p>     been taken by the learned single Judge of this Court then the same<\/p>\n<p>     view has to be taken in the present case also.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>     7.              Accordingly, the impugned Bill as contained in Annexure-<\/p>\n<p>     2 for the period June 2003 to October, 2003 is hereby quashed and<\/p>\n<p>     the matter is remitted back to the respondent Electricity Board to<\/p>\n<p>     issue fresh Bills in respect of the aforesaid period i.e. for the period<\/p>\n<p>     June, 2003 to October, 2003 when the meter of the petitioner was<\/p>\n<p>     defective on the basis of average consumption of previous three<\/p>\n<p>     months or the average consumption for the corresponding three<\/p>\n<p>     months of the previous year, whichever is higher.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>     8.              With the aforesaid observations and directions, this writ<\/p>\n<p>     petition stands disposed of.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>                                                       (Amareshwar Sahay, J)<\/p>\n<p>Jharkhand High Court,<br \/>\nRanchi. Dated 13th August, 2009<br \/>\nMukund..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jharkhand High Court Chanduka Hi-Tech Steels Pvt.Lt vs Jharkhand State Electricity Bo on 13 August, 2009 WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 5253 of 2003 An Application under Article 226 of the Constitution of India Chanduka Hi-tech Steels Pvt. Ltd. &#8230; &#8230; Petitioner &#8211; VERSUS &#8211; 1. The Jharkhand State Electricity Board 2. General Manager-cum-C.E., Jamshedpur 3. 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