JUDGMENT :

MANGESH S. PATIL, J.

1. Heard.

2. Rule. The Rule is made returnable forthwith. Learned Advocate Mr. A.S. Savale waives service for the respondents in all these petitions. With the consent of both the sides, the matters are heard finally at the stage of admission.

3. In all these petitions under Article 227 of the Constitution of India, a Distribution Licensee, established under the Electricity Act, 2003, is impugning the judgment and order passed by the Consumer Grievance Redressal Forum (“CGRF” for short), established under Section 42 (5) of the Electricity Act, whereby it quashed and set aside the judgments and orders passed by the Internal Consumer Grievance Redressal Cell (for short “ICGRC”) by which it had rejected/dismissed the claims of the respondents for refund of meter cubicles and other instrument costs and infrastructural cost incurred by them while obtaining electricity connection, allowing the claims of the respondents for such refund. Since common questions of fact and law arise in these petitions and the Advocates for both the sides being the same, these petitions are being disposed of by this common judgment.

4. For the sake of understanding, the parties woul