| The appellant, Smt. Pathumma, is an applicant of electric connection for her newly constructed house under the jurisdiction of Electrical Section, Venniyoor. She applied for electric connection after remitting Rs. 50.00 as application fee and Rs. 100.00 as processing fee on 09-10-2015. But the respondent denied her request alleging that the premises requires for new service connection was detected for theft of electricity and subsequently issued penal charges for an amount of Rs. 46,180.00 as per Section 126 of Electricity Act, 2003.
According to the respondent as there is a case pending against the appellant in connection with theft of electricity and an amount of Rs. 46,180.00 is still pending towards the penalty, the service connection could not be given to the appellant. Aggrieved against the stand taken against the issuance of new service connection by the respondent, the appellant approached the CGRF, Kozhikode, with a petition. But the CGRF disposed of the petition vide order in OP No.108/2015-2016 dated 02-03-2016 with the following decisions:
1. The respondents shall effect supply to the petitioner, premise, only after the petitioner remits Rs. 46,180.00 and on proper application, as per existing statutes.
2. The petitioner will be eligible to claim refund for the above amount if and only if he is acquitted by the lawful authority from theft charges.
3. The respondents shall strictly comply with Regulation 160 sub regulation (7) to (10), while effecting supply.
4. Petition allowed accordingly.
Not satisfied with the above decisions of CGRF, the appellant has filed this appeal petition before this Authority.
In view of the above discussions the respondent is directed to issue service connection to the new building after complying with all the formalities and after realization of the penal bill for Rs. 46,180.00. I am not making any opinion regarding the criminal case registered against Sri Abdul Salam as per Section 135 of Electricity Act, 2003 since the matter is pending before the competent Judicial Forum. The appeal petition is disposed of accordingly. The order of CGRF in OP No.108/2015-2016 dated 02-03-2016 is upheld. No order as to costs. |
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P/022/2016 Smt. Pathumma Malappuram 