Assessment of billing, in cases, where there is no meter or meter is defective.
11. Taking this Court through the comparative consumption reading recorded ... assessment of billing in cases, where there is no meter or meter is defective. The said Regulation is extracted hereunder:
"11.Assessment of billing
meter (now in use) which was installed on
10.10.2001 and the check meter which was installed on
24.04.2007 also shows that the meters are defective ... were reported and entered in the metering card. During the
period for which the meters were reported defective, the billing
was done as per Clause
complaint made to the department in connection with the same, the defective meter has not been replaced and instead they have charged at the rate ... defective recording of the meter reading as regards the meter provided in the plaintiffs' premises as well as the defective meter available
changed the meter in April 2016 by a New Static
Electronic Meter with MD Recording facility Meter, though the meter was not
defective ... meter, average amount has been paid as per the meter
reading. Thereafter, the respondent replaced the meter which according to the
respondent is defective, with
ensuring accurate recording
of both main meter and check meter. Since the main metering set was declared
as defective, after recording the check metering test ... both the meters were not equal,
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the meter defect was confirmed. Consequently
Board was only on account of wrong billing due to the defective meter. The assessment was made only as per the terms and conditions ... board found that there was a wrong billing due to the defective meter. Under the terms and conditions, issuing the notice calling for the explanation
meter for reading'. Regulation 11 speaks about
'Assessment of billing in cases where there is no meter or meter is defective'.
Regulation ... Assessment of billing in cases
where there is no meter or meter is defective'. In the case of the petitioner,
audit objection was raised
deals with Installation of
Meter where the consumer elects to purchase his own meter, licensee shall
ensure that such meter is of high quality, high ... Regulation 23 deals with the Tampered
Meters, in case of suspected theft through a tampered meter, such tampered
meter taken out and sealed
meter was defective. Thereafter the petitioner
company brought to the notice of the respondent and also the EE
about the defective meter but the respondent ... view of the peak hour restrictions,
unless the respondent rectifies the defective meter system, the
petitioner company would be put into great hardship and such
meters found to be struck off. Therefore, totally three
meters were fixed and latter on all the meters found to be defective and
therefore ... supply to the consumer is given without a meter or where the meter
fixed is found defective or to have ceased to function
