HIS HIGHNESS MAHARANA BHAGWAT Vs. BHOPAL ELECTRICITY SUPPLY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE privileges enjoyed by the erstwhile Rulers of the State of Rajasthan are still having a 'hang over' in the form of, litigation, wherein the head having been lost, the tail is still being tried to be caught, for concerning whatever little is possible.

(2.) THE present one is a series of that litigation in connection with the electricity charges. With the advent of freedom and integration of the States, the Indian Electricity Act 1910, was applied to the states also and the privileges of the rulers come into fire.

(3.) THERE is no doubt that the judgment of Hon'ble Justice Singhal makes a reference to this aspect of the matter but Mr. Hasti Mal is justified in submitting that the reference to the Ratting Committee never contemplated the decision of the privileges which become dead by virtue of Section 23 itself and could not get re -birth by any direction of the Rating Committee. The reference to the Rating Committee is as under; To examine the charges of the said company for the supply of electric energy and to recommend thereon to the said Government separately for the period commencing on the 1st February 1951, and ending on the 30th June, 1952, and for the period commencing on the 1st July, 1952 onwards.