Supreme Court · 2006 INSC 783 · Decided 2 November 2006
Jagmodhan Mehatabsing Gujaral and ORS. v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2006 INSC 783 · [2006] SUPP. 8 S.C.R. 332
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1113/2006
- Decided
- 2 November 2006
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, DALVEER BHANDARI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Electricity Act Section 39, 44
Headnote
Indian Electricity Act 1910; C Sections 39 and 44-large scale theft of electricity-Held, on Facts, conviction not to be interfered, fine enhanced. Appellants are accused of committing large scale theft of electricity. A team of officials led by the then Dy. Executive Engineer and in-charge of for the purpose of inspection and checking. Large scale tampering with the meters so that actual consumption could not be recorded, was detected. The daily consumption of power to be recorded by the consumer in prescribed G-7 form was found to have been written only once every month. Abnormal
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