U.P. STATE ELECTRICITY BOARD . vs U.P. SAHKARI KATAI MILLS LTD., FATEHPUR — C.A. No. 7991/2001

Case Summary The Supreme Court set aside the Allahabad High Court's judgment that had equated the U.P. State Electricity Board with the State Government and classified cooperative mill societies as public sector undertakings. The Court held the High Court erred in applying the ONGC dispute resolution framework without factual basis, emphasizing that cooperative societies and PSUs are conceptually distinct from state departments. The case was remitted for fresh consideration, with the directive that only if parties prove the mills are PSUs can the inter-governmental dispute mechanism apply. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.