Bombay High Court
MAHARASHTRA STATE ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION COMPANY LIMITEDversusM/S. BHAGWANDAS ISPAT PVT. LTD. AND ANR.
- Decided
- Disposal
- Disposed Off
Holding
The petition is infructuous due to the respondent’s liquidation and is therefore disposed.
Summary
The Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company filed a writ petition challenging an order of the Consumer Grievance Redressal Forum, Kalyan Zone, which had directed the company to reconnect electricity supply to M/s Bhagwandas Ispat Pvt. Ltd. The forum’s order also warned that if a notice amount was not paid by 15 September 2014, the company could discontinue supply. While the petition was pending, the respondent company was liquidated by the National Company Law Tribunal on 18 July 2023, and no claim was filed against the liquidator. The court observed that the liquidation rendered the petition’s relief impossible to grant, making the challenge infructuous. Consequently, the writ petition was disposed of as infructuous and any interim relief previously granted was vacated.
Issues considered
- Whether the liquidation of a respondent company makes a pending consumer grievance petition infructuous
- Whether interim relief granted in a consumer grievance remains effective after the respondent’s liquidation
Subjects
- consumer protection
- liquidation
- writ petition
- electricity supply
- infructuous
Judgment
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
Digitally
signed by
HUSENBASHA
WRIT PETITION NO. 8328 OF 2014
HUSENBASHA RAHAMAN
RAHAMAN NADAF
NADAF Date:
2026.09.08
20:21:48
Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution
+0530
Company Limited ...Petitioner
Versus
M/s. Bhagwandas Ispat Pvt. Ltd. And Anr. ...Respondents
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Mr. Arnav Ashtikar i/b. DSK Legal for the Petitioner.
None for Respondents.
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CORAM : M.M. SATHAYE, J.
DATE : 8th SEPTEMBER, 2026
P.C. :
1. The petition is filed challenging the order dated 04.09.2014
passed by the Consumer Grievance Redressal Forum, Kalyan Zone in
Grievance No.K/DOS/031/995/2014-15. By the impugned order, the
grievance of the consumer was allowed and the Petitioner was
directed to reconnect the electricity supply. It was directed if the
amount stated in the notice dated 22.08.2014 is not paid by
Respondent No.1 till 15.09.2014 then the Petitioner-Company can
resort to action of discontinuation.
2. During pendency of the petition, the Respondent-Company has
been liquidated under the order dated 18.07.2023 passed by the
National Company Law Tribunal, Chandigarh Bench, Chandigarh. Its
copy is placed on record by learned counsel for the Petitioner, which
is marked ‘X’ for identification. Learned counsel for the Petitioner has
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fairly submitted that no claim has been filed by the Petitioner-
Company before the Liquidator.
3. Considering that the Respondent company has now been
liquidated, challenge in the petition has become infructuous. Writ
petition is accordingly disposed of as infructuous. Interim/ad-interim
relief, if any, stands vacated.
4. All concerned to act on duly authenticated or digitally signed
QR verifiable copy of this order.
(M.M. SATHAYE, J.)
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