The Superintending Engineer vs Annamalai Cotton Mills P. Limited on 12 January, 2009
Moreover, the Clause 8.00 of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board Terms and Conditions of Supply of Electricity speaks of dishonest abstraction or use of energy as deemed to have committed theft and it cannot be said by any stretch of imagination that the Andra Pradesh Terms and Conditions of Electricity Supply speaks of pilferage and malpractice, which are qualitatively distinct from theft and therefore, the decision of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Hyderabad Vanaspathi Limited V. A.P. State Electricity Board and others (1998) 4 SCC 470 will not apply to the facts of our present case, is not accepted by this Court.