{"id":645930,"date":"2025-09-12T11:42:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=645930"},"modified":"2025-09-12T11:42:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:12:28","slug":"landlord-liable-for-6-6l-power-bill-not-tenant-ombudsman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/landlord-liable-for-6-6l-power-bill-not-tenant-ombudsman\/","title":{"rendered":"Landlord liable for 6.6L power bill, not tenant: Ombudsman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: An electricity consumer is liable to pay arrears in power bills even if the discom raises the demand after much delay and irrespective of whether the premises was occupied by a tenant during the faulty assessment period, the Tamil Nadu Electricity Ombudsman has ruled.<\/p>\n<p>The ombudsman made the ruling while disposing of an appeal filed by Kolathur-based consumer P Kannan against the demand of 6.64 lakh raised by TNPDCL for his industrial service for wrong assessment for a particular period when the premises was occupied by a tenant. The ombudsman has held that since he continued to be a registered consumer and the agreement remained in force, he is legally liable to pay the arrears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: An electricity consumer is liable to pay arrears in power bills even if the discom raises the demand after much delay and irrespective of whether the premises was occupied by a tenant during the faulty assessment period, the Tamil Nadu Electricity Ombudsman has ruled. The ombudsman made the ruling while disposing of an appeal filed by Kolathur-based consumer P Kannan against the demand of 6.64 lakh raised by TNPDCL for his industrial service for wrong assessment for a particular period when the premises was occupied by a tenant. The ombudsman has held that since he continued to be a [&hellip;]<\/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-645930","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\/645930","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=645930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}