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For all tenants who feel helpless when their landlords refuse to give
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No Objection Certificates (NOCs) for installing separate electricity
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give his nod in writing.
WORLD BUSINESS"Electricity being an essential services, the same cannot
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be denied to the person who is in occupation but in dispute with the owner/landlord," held Justice
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The judge was of the opinion that there could be several reasons for disputes between a landlord inroads in India,
Pakistan
and his tenant and they might have also approached a court of law for adjudication of their
disputes, but that alone could not be sufficient to decline a tenant's request for a separate electricity
meter. If a tenant was in a position to fulfil all the other formalities and could submit documents Next Chief Justice a
court employee who
showing his legitimate tenancy on the property, there could be no reason why a discom should
guards his personal
refuse to install an independent connection in his favour, the court noted. space

Justice Gambhir also found no favour with the views that the Delhi Electricity Supply Code
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Performance Regulations restricted installing a separate meter unless there was a NOC in writing
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from a landlord. The court observed that electricity being an indispensable commodity had to be
provided to a consumer if he was willing to pay and abide by all the other regulations.

The court held so while adjudicating a writ petition filed by Dayal Krishna Phadiyal, who was
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compelled to approach the court after his landlady Sumandri Devi got the electricity connection of
conversion row,
his shop at Laxmi Nagar disconnected following a dispute in February 2009. When Phadiyal asked temple felt far, the
her to give a NOC so that he could get a separate meter installed, she flatly refused. Gulf nearer

Armed with all the requisite documents, Phadiyal approached BSES Yamuna officials, but to no
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avail. They said they could not help him until and unless he had a NOC from his landlady. school apart

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