SC on Minimum guarantee charges as fixed by electricity supply company

Jharkhand State Electricity Board Vs Ramkrishna Forging Limited (Supreme Court of India) It is noteworthy that the Jharkhand State Electricity Board (‘the Board’) is a monopoly supplier of electricity which has laid down its own terms and conditions, regarding which the consumer has no say or choice but to sign on the dotted lines, if it wants of get electricity load varied for running its industry. The Board is an instrumentality of the State. It has to be fair and reasonable. If the Regulations provide for contract load to be varied even through a written communication, then in our consi...