MUMBAI: Bombay high court bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice A S Gadkari on Wednesday did not consider it necessary to intervene to grant any concessions but directed that any consumer unhappy with the bills received from his or her electricity distribution company can make grievances to the grievance cell of their power distribution company.
\nThe HC directed that such grievance cells should not waste any time in responding to them and \u201cshall abide in letter and spirit\u2019\u2019 by the \u201cPress Note issued\u2019\u2019 to ensure no one is disconnected for non-payment until bill related grievance is redressed.
\nThe provisions of grievance redressal mechanism under Electricity Act are \u201cconceived in interest of consumers\u201d and therefore the issue \u201cdoesn\u2019t require any further intervention” said the HC while disposing a PIL filed by BJP leader Mangal Prabhat Lodha against \u201cinflated\u201d electricity bills received by many during the financially draining covid-19 lockdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MUMBAI: Bombay high court bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice A S Gadkari on Wednesday did not consider it necessary to intervene to grant any concessions but directed that any consumer unhappy with the bills received from his or her electricity distribution company can make grievances to the grievance cell of their power distribution company. The HC directed that such grievance cells should not waste any time in responding to them and \u201cshall abide in letter and spirit\u2019\u2019 by the \u201cPress Note issued\u2019\u2019 to ensure no one is disconnected for non-payment until bill related grievance is redressed. The […]<\/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-366485","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\/366485","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=366485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}