Mr. Justice L. Manoharan, President—The opposite parties in O.P. 223/1999 on the file of the Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Malappuram is the appellant. The complainant challenged the additional bill dated 5.3.1999 stating that he was regularly paying the amount for the consumption and the said bill for Rs. 25,622/- is invalid. In the version by the opposite party/appellant they maintained that the Anti Power Theft Squad discovered phases ‘R’ and ‘B’ of the meter were interchanged as a result of which the meter failed to record 2/3rd of the energy consumed by the complainant. They have now charged the complainant for the 2/3rd consumption from the date of installation of the meter till discovery. The District Forum found that the opposite parties are eligible to collect the charges for the 2/3rd energy only for the period of six months immediately preceeding the detection of the aforesaid wrong connection to the phases R and B; but in the decretal portion the District Forum computed the quantum of energy consumed only for 1/3rd and fixed the liability of the complainant to pay for only the said energy. In the appeal the appellant challenges the said part of the order and a