Supreme Court of India

Kusumam Hotels (p) Ltd. v. Kerala State Electricity Board & Ors.

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Reported as [2008] 9 S.C.R. 752

Bench S.B. Sinha and Lokeshwar Singh Panta JJ.

Decided 16 May 2008

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3 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

We hold that the High Court was not right in observing that the orders under Section 22-B of the Act imposing restrictions on consumption of power could not legally and validly be passed by the Government "with retrospective F effect" in the middle of a water year.

Judgment, page 15

Authorities it was built on

1994 Kasinka Trading and Anr. Etc. Etc> v. Union of India and Anr. cited by 33
2003 State of Orissa and Ors. v. Mangalam Timber Products Ltd. Etc. cited by 4

Where later benches applied it

2024 The Madhya Pradesh Madhya Kshetra Vidyut Vitran Company Limited & Ors. v. Bapuna Alcobrew Private Limited & Anr. referred to
2023 K. C. Ninan v. Kerala State Electricity Board & Ors. referred to
2010 Transmission Corpn. of A.P. Ltd. & Anr. v. Sai Renewable Power Pvt. Ltd. & Ors. mentioned

Of those, 2 referred to · 1 mentioned

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