ORAL JUDGMENT :- The First and the Second respondents are owners of a factory in which ice cream is manufactured at 131 and 138, C.P. Tank Road, Mumbai 400 004. Initially the unit of the aforesaid consumers was supplied with electricity through two meters being meter Nos. L 770872 and E 992866. The applicable tariff under which the consumers were billed was the industrial GP-1 tariff. On 15th January, 2000 the consumers in the present case made an application for the installation of an electronic meter and for change of the tariff from GP-1 to GP-2 on the ground that the existing consumption which was more than 3000 units per month was likely to increase. On 19th January, 2000 the two existing conventional meters were replaced by an electronic meter bearing No. P 991370. The tariff was changed from GP-1 to GP-2. Between 19th January, 2000 and 27th May, 2000 the readings of the new electronic meter were not taken by the petitioner or its concerned officials. The explanation of the petitioner is that the Electronic Data Processing (EDP) Department keeps a record of meters in consumption and it is only after a new meter is recorded with the EDP Department that appropriate cards with n

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