Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Monday directed the state to file an affidavit by August 5 on steps taken to resolve the electricity bill issue in Kolkata. The order followed a writ petition seeking an injunction restraining power utilities from charging ad hoc payment for electricity consumed during the lockdown. The court also directed the petitioner to file an affidavit pinpointing the anomalies in the bills issued by CESC and WBSEDCL.
\nIn the writ petition filed on Monday, the petitioner questioned whether electricity utilities could issue ad hoc bills without meter reading in April, May and June. The petitioner said electricity supply companies have remained indifferent to the exceptional circumstances during lockdown.
\nCESC and WBSEDCL had issued provisional bills for April and May when meters were not read. Both utilities said the June bill issued after meter reading took into account the provisional bills of the previous two months. Following allegations of inflated billing for June, CESC has put the June bill on hold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Monday directed the state to file an affidavit by August 5 on steps taken to resolve the electricity bill issue in Kolkata. The order followed a writ petition seeking an injunction restraining power utilities from charging ad hoc payment for electricity consumed during the lockdown. The court also directed the petitioner to file an affidavit pinpointing the anomalies in the bills issued by CESC and WBSEDCL. In the writ petition filed on Monday, the petitioner questioned whether electricity utilities could issue ad hoc bills without meter reading in April, May and June. The petitioner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}