| M/s Bharath Charitable Hospital, High Tension consumer code (No. HTB-13/4221) of the Kerala State Electricity Board Limited having a Contract Demand of 320 kVA, under Electrical Section, Kottayam Central in the jurisdiction of Electrical Circle, Kottayam. The meter installed in the premises was found faulty, while taking meter reading for the month of March 2014. Therefore, a short assessment bill dated 22-01-2015 for Rs. 26,94,441.00 served on the appellant reassessing for a period of previous 9 months. The said short assessment bill was challenged before the Hon’ble High Court of Kerala by filing W.P. (C) No. 4477/2015, and the Hon’ble High Court by its judgment dated 12-02-2015 directed the appellant to approach the Special Officer (Revenue).
Accordingly, the appellant filed an objection against the penal bill before the Special Officer (Revenue), but the said bill was confirmed by Proceedings dated 30-05-2015 of the Special Officer (Revenue). The said order and short assessment bill was again challenged before the Consumer Grievance Redressal Forum (Southern Region) by filing O.P. No. 1517/2015 and the said Forum in its order dated 30-09-2015 concluded that "on verifying the energy consumption pattern of the appellant, the energy consumption prior to meter faulty was 9792 units and after replacement was 10730 units. From this it is found that the energy consumption increased after the meter replacement." Forum viewed that the energy consumption after the meter replacement is more than before the meter fault. Forum directed to revise the bills for six months as per the clause 115(9) of Kerala Electricity Supply Code, 2014. Against the above order, the appellant has filed this appeal petition before this Authority.
Regulation 115 (9) says that in the case the meter is found to be faulty, revision of bill on the basis of test report shall be done for a maximum period of 6 months or from the date of last testing, whichever is shorter and the excess or deficit charges on account of such revision shall be adjusted in two subsequent bills.
The appeal petition is found having some merits and is admitted. The order of CGRF in O.P. No. 1517/2015 is set aside. No order as to costs. |
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P/170/2015 Sri. Vinod Viswanathan, Kottayam. 