Mr. Justice S.S. Sandhawalia, President — Whether a son is ipso-facto the beneficiary of the service of electrical energy hired by his father from the Haryana State Electricity Board? This is the threshold significant question in this appeal.

2. The facts merit notice with pointed relevance to the aforesaid core question. Admittedly now the father of the appellant Shri Sumer Singh had taken a tubewell connection from the respondent-Board being connection No. G.A.P 52. The complaint was however, preferred by one of his many children namely Dalip Singh, appellant, alleging that some time earlier the connecting wires from an adjoining pole had fallen and disrupted the electric supply with the result of consequential damage to the crops. The somewhat curious plea was that for that reason the payment of the electricity bills could not be made with the result that the respondent-Board disconnected the electricity to the tubewell. However, subsequently on application the electric supply was restored on the 15th of December, 1991 and charges were levied on a flat rate. It was the complainants case that he was compelled to spend Rs. 60/- on labour charges, therefor besides giving his ow