M/S. KOTHARI INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION LTD.versusTAMIL NADU ELECTRICITY BOARD & ANR.
2016 INSC 10429 January 2016Dismissed
M/s Kothari Industrial Corporation Ltd and other industrial units set up caustic soda plants in Tamil Nadu and were promised a concessional electricity tariff for the first five years by a government letter dated 29‑06‑1976. After the Tamil Nadu Revision of Tariff Rates on Supply of Electrical Energy Act, 1978 came int…
TAMIL NADU ELECTRICITY BOARD & ANR.versusSTATUS SPINNING MILLS LTD. & ANR.
2008 INSC 73316 May 2008Appeal(s) allowed
The Tamil Nadu Electricity Board and the State of Tamil Nadu appealed against a Madras High Court order that upheld tariff concessions for high‑tension industries set up before 15‑02‑1997. The dispute centered on the meaning of "set up" in the 1995 and 1997 government notifications and whether the doctrine of promissor…
MAHESHWARI FISH SEED FARMversusT. NADU ELECTRICITY BOARD AND ANR.
2004 INSC 27816 April 2004Dismissed
The appellants, owners of fish seed farms engaged in pisciculture, claimed that the Tamil Nadu government’s 1990 notification granting free low‑tension electricity to "agriculture" also covered their fish‑farming activities. The respondents, Tamil Nadu Electricity Board, denied the claim, holding that pisciculture is n…
M/S KOTHARI INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION LTD.versusTAMIL NADU ELECTRICITY BOARD & ANR.
2010 INSC 6661 October 2010Matter referred to larger bench
The appellants, Kothari Industrial Corporation Ltd. and others, set up new industrial units attracted by a five‑year tariff concession under the Tamil Nadu Revision of Tariff Rates on Supply of Electrical Energy Act, 1978. A later notification (30‑April‑1982) altered the concession, stipulating it would not apply once …