SHASHI SHARMA Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Standing Counsel for the respondent no. 1 and Dr. S.K. Yadav, learned counsel for the contesting respondents no. 2 and 3 and have perused the record.

(2.) THE case of the petitioner is that she has an electricity connection. In the year 2010 an inspection was conducted in her premises, in which it was alleged that the petitioner was indulging in theft of electricity. The petitioner was given a provisional assessment bill to which, accordingly to the respondent -Corporation, the petitioner did not submit her objection and thereafter no final assessment order has been passed. Till 2012 the petitioner was paying her electricity bills regularly but thereafter the petitioner states that the respondent has stopped accepting the current bills for consumption of electricity.

(3.) THE respondents authorities shall have liberty to pass final assessment order after considering the objection of the petitioner. In case the petitioner is aggrieved by the final assessment order, she shall have liberty to challenge the same in appeal under Section 127 of the Electricity Act, 2003.