Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 1024 · Decided 9 October 2007
Accounts Officer, Jharkhand State Electricity Board and ANR. v. Anwar Ali
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 1024 · [2007] 10 S.C.R. 905
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4734/2007
- Decided
- 9 October 2007
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, P. SATHASIVAM (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Consumer Protection Act Section 2(o); Electricity Act
Headnote
f Consumer Protection Act, 1986; Section 2(o): c Beneficial Consumer Jurisdiction-Electricity supply of respondent discontinued by appellant-Board allegedly without serving Notice-Complaint to District Consumer Forum-Forum awarding a sum of Rs. 50, 0001-as compensation to respondent-Upheld by ) D - Held: National Commission did not consider the question as to whether consumer of electricity is a consumer in terms of Section 2(o) of the 1986 Act-Hence, matter remitted to National Commission to record a positive finding on the subject and also to consider the dispute regarding alleged
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