Aggrieved by the order dated 29.08.2011 passed by the Punjab State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Chandigarh in First Appeal No. 1341 of 2006, the original complainant has approached this Commission with the present petition.  The appeal before the State Commission was filed against the order dated 07.09.2006 passed by the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Fategarh Sahib, by which order the District Forum had allowed the complaint and directed the opposite party-Punjab State Electricity Board not to release the electric

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connection to other persons without the consent of the complainant who has borne the expenditure of the line and the transformer.  The State Commission allowed the appeal and dismissed the complaint.  The petition has been filed belatedly and an application for condonation of delay has also been filed. 

2.      The Registry has reported 110 days delay in filing the revision petition and according to the petitioner the delay is of 41 days.   We have heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and have considered his submissions.  In our view, the application for condonation of delay does not disclose any sufficient cause entitling him to a favourable exercise of the judicial discretion vested in this Commission in this regard.

3.      The application is declined.  Even after doing so, we have examined the merits of the present petition and in our view the State Commission has given cogent reasons based on the statutory provisions as to why no exclusive right could be claimed by the present petitioner over the line and the transformer which was installed for giving electric connection to the petitioner.  The order is well reasoned and justified one, and suffers from no illegality, material irregularity and jurisdictional error warranting interference by this Commission.

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The revision petition is, accordingly, dismissed on both the grounds of delay and on merit.