Supreme Court of India

Kerala State Electricity Board Rep. by its Secretary & Anr. v. Principal Sir Syed Institute for Technical Studies & Ors.

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Reported as [2020] 7 S.C.R. 885
Bench Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose JJ.
Decided 20 February 2020

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that for the purpose of settling the tariff question, who is serving the 903 “purpose” and for whom such “purpose” is being served have to be factored in.

Judgment, page 18

From the headnote

Electricity Act, 2003 – s.62(3) – Scope of – Tariff notif ication issued by appellant – Respondents-Self-Financing Ed ucational Institutions (SFEIs) were segregated from State run and St ate aided private educational institutions and subjected to h igher category of tariff – Challenged – Single Judge of the High ourt found the tariff order to be valid – Aforesaid order set aside by Divi sion Bench – On appeal, held: No undue preference was given to the State run and State aided institutions in the tariff notifica tion – No error committed by the appellant in fixing higher tariff for the SFEIs

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

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