Briefly stated facts of the present case are that the petitioner is a manufacturer of paper in which plant about 78 workers are employed. The petitioner took an electricity connection in the year 2003 for industrial purpose. Petitioner was regularly paying its electricity bills. For the month of August, 2018 the petitioner received a bill of Rs.1,16,018.69/- which according to it was exceptionally high. Therefore, he filed an objection dated 19.09.2018 before the respondent No.3, Executive Engineer Electricity Urban Distribution Division-I, NOIDA and requested that the bill may be corrected as its past bills were between Rs.47,000/to 63,000/- per month. However, under protest the petitioner deposited the entire bill amount of Rs.1,16,018/- pending decision on the objection. By the impugned order dated 22.09.2018 the aforesaid Executive Engineer, namely, Sri Manoj Kumar created a demand of Rs.25,69,958/- observing that since 12.06.2012 bills were prepared applying multiplier of 20 instead of multiplier of 40. Thus, the objection of the petitioner against the bill for the month of August, 2018 for Rs.1,16,018/- was disposed of raising a huge additional demand of Rs.25,69,958/- for the period since 12.06.2012.
