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Providing Public Utility Is Fiduciary Trust, Not Administrative High-Handedness: Calcutta HC Quashes WBSEDCL's Excess Electricity Bills
Srinjoy Das
5 Feb 2026 5:00 PM IST
The Calcutta High Court has held that the West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd. (WBSEDCL) cannot recover a supplemental electricity bill of Rs. 55.8 lakh from Jyotish Chandra Rice Mill. A division bench of Justices Rajarshi Bharadwaj and Uday Kumar found that the demand was based on an unproven “polarity reversal” in the transformer and speculative average billing,...
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