RAJASTHAN STATE ELECTRICITY BOARD Vs. SANTOSHI LAL GOYAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The abovementioned six appeals are being decided by this common judgment as identical questions of law and facts arise in all of them.

(2.) This appeal has been filed by the defendants-appellants against the judgment and decree dated 19.4.1985 passed by the learned District Judge, Bharatpur in Civil Suit No. 31/1983 by which he partly decreed the suit of the plaintiff-respondent and further directed the defendants-appellants to issue fresh bills in respect of fuel surcharge keeping in view the directions given by this Court in Delhi Cloth and General Mills Co. Ltd. v. Rajasthan State Electricity Board and Ors., AIR 1984 (Raj.) 131, meaning thereby the learned District Judge disallowed the element of interest on fuel surcharge.

(3.) It arises in the following circumstances :