ORDER BY HON’BLE MEMBER- MRS. M. SWAIN:

                                                                                               JUDGMENT

            Complainant has filed this consumer complaint U/s.12 of C.P. Act, 1986 seeking following reliefs;

            “Direct the opposite parties to supply of the extract copy of bill statement up to connection till date and to reduce the excesses bill and revise the bill as correct and supply correct bill as per meter reading and wave out fine amount from monthly bill and not to disconnect the power supply to the premises”.

            The brief fact of the complaint is that, the present complainant Ashok Kumar Sahoo is a permanent inhabitant of village Badilo, P.O. Ebrisingh, P.S. Tirtol, Dist. Jagatsinghpur and his grandfather was consumer in electricity having consumer No.0428305D under Tirtol Electrical Sub-Division since 1972. The complainant was paid electric bill regularly to the opposite parties in average basis as opposite parties was not installed meter in the premises of complainant. High amount of bill was charged to the grandfather of the complainant for which father of the complainant made his grievance to the opposite parties for installation of a meter and the bill will be paid as per actual consumption. In the year 2005 opposite parties installed a meter in the premises of the complainant and without revising the bill during average period imposed fine and threatened to disconnect the electric current in the premises of the complainant.

            The opposite parties in their written version on 15.10.2020 took the stand that Sri Binod Kumar Sahoo the grandfather of the present complainant is a consumer under Tirtol Electrical Sub-Division and has got power supply in between the nineties and meter reading bill served to the consumer up to 10/1999. After super cyclone the L.T. network destroyed and reconstructed on 08/2000. The petitioner got power supply on 09/2000 onwards without meter. That’s why load factor bills served to the petitioner from 09/2000 to 12/2015. The installed meter activated from 01/2006 and all bills served to the consumer on actual consumption of meter reading. Opposite parties was also given another written statement on 24.6.2022 that as per ledger abnormal the average bill has been served to the complainant from 10/1999 to 12/2015 and the same has been revised as per instruction of the Hon’ble Commission at the time of hearing on dtd.25.5.2022, that about R/C or D/C of power supply, there is no record available at the Sub-Division office and the petitioner has never come to this office to settle the arrear E.C. dues before.

            It is also cleared from the statement submitted by the Dy. Manager (Com) Tirtol Sub-Division (O.P. No.2) that Rs.23,696/- was deducted from the fine amount of Rs.36,963/- and opposite parties already revised average bill of complainant and Rs.13,266/- is to be paid to the opposite parties by the complainant.

            Hence it is ordered that complainant shall pay the revise fine bill amount of Rs.13,266/- in 12 equal installments within a year along with monthly current bill from the date of order. With the aforesaid observation and direction the consumer complaint is disposed of without any cost.