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Court restrains BYPL from recovery of 52-lakh bill

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has restrained the Capital’s power distribution company BSES Yamuna Private Limited (BYPL) from going ahead with recovery of a pending electricity bill for Rs.52 lakh from an industry.

Justice Vipin Sanghi passed the stay order on a petition by Plaza Pipe Industry submitting that it had been wrongly slapped with the bill accusing it of tampering with the meter.

Counsel for the petitioner industry, Falak Mohammed Meo, submitted that the alleged tampered meter belonged to another private industry that was running a factory manufacturing window panes for cars in the commercial premises which it (petitioner) had later taken on rent at Karawal Nagar in North-East Delhi.

He submitted that earlier his client was running the factory manufacturing pipes in the Patparganj Industrial Area of East Delhi. He said his client had later shifted the factory to the new premises in Karawal Nagar and informed the power distribution company about this.

In fact, the owner of the premises had on a request by the factory owner applied for a new power connection of 60 kW. The power distribution company had sanctioned his request and installed a new meter in the factory and taken away the old one, Falak Mohammed submitted.

BYPL had later sent the old meter to a lab to examine whether it had been tampered with. The meter was found to be tampered. On the basis of the test report, BYPL issued a show-cause notice with a bill for Rs.52 lakh to the Plaza Pipe Industry.

In reply to the notice, the petitioner denied that any bill was pending against it. It requested BYPL to recover the dues, if any, from the owner of the old factory in the premises. But the power distribution company dismissed the reply. Thereafter the petitioner industry moved the High Court.

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