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(E) To award the cost of this petition.

(F) To grant such other and further relief as may be deemed fit by this Hon'ble Court in the interest of justice."

5. Heard Ms. Lilu Bhaya, the learned advocate appearing for the petitioner.

5.1 Ms. Bhaya, the learned advocate for the petitioner herein submitted that the appellate authority though admitted that Letter of AUDA sanctioning merger of Plots was not submitted to the petitioner at any point of time prior to the issuance of provisional bill, erred in holding that the connection was released in Plot Nos. 17, 18 and 19 and that the same was authorized. It was submitted that the respondent No.1 had, right from the beginning i.e. from the first application seeking electricity connection and in all subsequent applications, for extension of load, mentioned that the electricity connection is required in Plot Nos. 18 and produced documents related to Plot No. 18 only.

"3. Thus, it appears from the aforesaid that the writ applicant has been allotted the Shed No.15B situated at the village :
Sanathal. The writ applicant is a consumer of the appellants. The writ applicant is in the business of packaging material and has a factory. For his manufacturing unit, the appellants provided electric connection with the contracted load of 100 HP. Later in point of time, in one auction proceedings conducted by the Gujarat State Financial Corporation, the writ applicant purchased the adjoining Shed No.19 for the purpose of expansion of his industry. Thus, the writ applicant became the owner of two Sheds i.e. Shed No.15B and Shed No.19 respectively.
4. It is not in dispute that the electric connection with the contracted load of 100 HP is in the Shed No.15B. After purchasing the adjoining Shed No.19, the writ applicant demolished the partition wall and extended the electric connection upto Shed No.19. This was noticed by the officials of the appellants during their visit to the manufacturing unit.

The appellants considered such extension of the electric connection to the Shed No.19 as illegal and resale of energy. In such circumstances, a supplementary bill amounting to Rs.3,95,065.13 was issued to the writ applicant.

17. The terms "connected load", as defined under the conditions, reads thus:

"Connected load" shall mean the sum of the rated capacities of all the energy consuming devices on the consumers apparatus which can be operated simultaneously with the exemption of the equipments which are listed below:
For Residential Consumer Mixer Grinder Juicer Sewing Machines Hot Iron For Commercial Consumers Equipments kept for demonstration purpose only."