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SC: Captive Consumers/Captive Users Are Not Liable to Pay Additional Surcharge - (13 Dec 2021)

ELECTRICITY

Supreme Court has observed that captive consumers/captive users are not liable to pay the additional surcharge leviable under Section 42(4) of the Electricity Act, 2003. It was also observed that consumers defined u/s 2(15) of the Act, 2003 and the captive consumers are different and distinct and they form a separate class by themselves.

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