PARAMVIR ICE FACTORYS OWNER, VIRUBEN PARSOTAMBHAI KHERAVA vs PGVCL MANGROL Advocate - K T DUBEY — 49/2024

Summary The 2nd Additional District Judge, Junagadh allowed the appeal and set aside the trial court's judgment dismissing the plaintiff's suit. The court held that the electricity distribution company failed to prove electricity theft against the ice factory owner because: (1) no meter testing was conducted by an Electrical Inspector or independent expert; (2) the anomaly code found in the meter was not definitively proven to indicate theft rather than a technical fault; and (3) no provisional bill was issued as mandated by the Electricity Act. The company is barred from recovering the supplementary bill of ₹9,14,692.61 and disconnecting the electricity supply. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.