Order No. 2 Date : .27.07.2015.
This date was fixed for passing order in this case as this Forum heard the case on admission on 20.7.2015. In the instant case the petitioner, Sangeta Das, filed this Consumer Case no. 260 of 2015 against the Chairman, WBSEDCL and Station Manager, Andul Group Electric Supply, praying for sending a fresh and proper bill on the basis of his consumption and also to return the extra amount charge from January, 2015 to March, 2015 etc. In his averments of the petition the petitioner submitted that the o.p. sent him bills for the month of January to March, 2015 on an average basis amounting to Rs. 5,207.83 which was duly paid by him and thereafter o.p. sent him bill for April, 2015 to June, 2015 amounting to Rs. 10,695/- and also bill for the month of July, August & September, 2015 amounting to Rs. 19,837/- without meter reading which was illegal and so he filed this case for such fictitious electric bills as stated in para 10 of the petition.
This Forum consider during admission that the case was well within the jurisdiction of the Forum but the matter connecting electric bills cannot be entertained by this Forum. Our Apex Court in the case of CESC Ltd. vs. Shri N.M. Banka and others opined that the correct course of a consumer with a dispute regarding the correctness of the electricity meter or of the billed electricity consumption, he would apply to the electrical inspector designated as mentioned in the provision of the Indian Electricity Act, 1910.
In the instant case the petitioner did not adopt the course as stated in the Indian Electricity Act and also the law laid down by the Supreme Court in Civil Appeal No. 14421 of 1996 and instead the petitioner has chosen to approach the District Forum for a solution of his problem and the same cannot be entertained and thus this Forum has no jurisdiction to entertain such a case.
Hence,
ORDERED
That the case is not admitted and thus it is disposed of accordingly.
Supply the copy of the order to the parties, as per rule.
