https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=280450 The Regulatory Commission had jurisdiction to entertain a petition seeking a direction to supply electricity, because the claim enforced the statutory duty of a distribution licensee and could not be diverted to consumer grievance machinery before consumer status arose. Tata Power was treated as a deemed distribution licensee, since the statutory deeming fiction under the Electricity Act, 2003 had to be carried to its logical end and the licence conditions continued for the specified term. A local authority's exemption from open access under Section 42(3) did not bar another distribution licensee from extending its own network and supplying electricity, because the universal supply obligation under Section 43 remained independent. The appeal failed and the concurrent findings were affirmed. en-us Thu, 08 May 2014 00:00:00 +0530 Sun, 05 May 2019 08:43:17 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=280450 The Regulatory Commission had jurisdiction to entertain a petition seeking a direction to supply electricity, because the claim enforced the statutory duty of a distribution licensee and could not be diverted to consumer grievance machinery before consumer status arose. Tata Power was treated as a deemed distribution licensee, since the statutory deeming fiction under the Electricity Act, 2003 had to be carried to its logical end and the licence conditions continued for the specified term. A local authority's exemption from open access under Section 42(3) did not bar another distribution licensee from extending its own network and supplying electricity, because the universal supply obligation under Section 43 remained independent. The appeal failed and the concurrent findings were affirmed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 08 May 2014 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=280450