1. The present writ application has been filed by the petitioner for a direction to restore electric line, which has been disconnected without notice to it and also to quash the bill, which has been raised against the petitioner by treating it as H.T. consumer and to raise the bill on the basis of its sanctioned load of 79 H.P., which is under L.T. consumption.

2. The facts, which are not in dispute, are that the petitioner is a partnership firm and has established a Hard Coke Plant at Tundi Road, Panchrukhi, P.S. Gobindpur, District Dhanbad. The petitioner applied for electricity connection and he was given electricity connection in 1995 and the sanctioned load of the petitioner was 79 H.P. According to the petitioner, the load at no point of time exceeded the above sanctioned load. The petitioner has been consuming electricity within the sanctioned load and has been paying electric charges regularly to the Board. At no point of time, it was brought to the notice of the petitioner that the machine installed by the petitioner consumes electricity exceeding the sanctioned load. The meter of the petitioner became defective and later on a new meter was installed on 10-8-1998 a