Supreme Court of India

Tamil Nadu Electricity Board & Anr. v. Status Spinning Mills Ltd. & Anr.

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Reported as [2008] 9 S.C.R. 870

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

Decided 16 May 2008

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the reasoning of the Bombay Bench of the Tribunal as well as that of the Andhra Pradesh High Court must be affirmed and the decision of the Delhi F Tribunal set aside insofar as it relates to the eligibility of LSP 340 to the benefit of the exemption notification.

Judgment, page 36

From the headnote

Tamil Nadu Revision of Tariff Rates on supply of Electri cal Energy Act, 1978: Ss 3, 4 and GO.Ms.No. 29 dated c 31.01.1995 and GO.Ms. dated 14.2.2007 making amendment in the schedule appended to 1978 Act: Government Order/Notification providing for tariff conces sion for High Tension Industries - Amendment made restrict ing the benefit to industries set up only upto the specified date - Challenge to - Dismissing the petition High Court held that Industries which either informed or made application to Elec tricity Board for getting power connection before the due date or industries

Authorities it was built on

1994 Kasinka Trading and Anr. Etc. Etc> v. Union of India and Anr. cited by 33
1966 Commissioner of Wealth Tax, Madras v. Ramaraju Surgical Cotton Mills, Ltd. cited by 9

Where later benches applied it

2020 Union of India & Another Etc. Etc. v. M/s V.v.f Limited & Another Etc. Etc. relied on
2020 Union of India & Ors. v. M/s G S Chatha Rice Mills & Anr. referred to
2014 State of Haryana & Ors. v. Bharti Teletech Ltd. referred to
2013 Suresh Kumar Koushal and Another v. Naz Foundation and Others referred to

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