JUDGMENT :

(A.K. Jayasankaran Nambiar, J.)

As a common issue arises in the Writ Appeal and the two Writ Petitions, they are taken up together for consideration and disposed by this common judgment.

The Brief Facts:

W.A.No.44 of 2019 & W.P(C).No.7734 of 2019

2. The writ appeal impugns the judgment of a learned Single Judge in W.P(C).No.31411 of 2017 whereby the challenge by the appellant against an order of the Appellate Authority constituted under Section 127 of the Electricity Act, 2003 was dismissed as devoid of merit. W.P(C).No.7734 of 2019 on the other hand is a writ petition filed by the Kerala State Electricity Board Ltd. [KSEB], the distribution licensee in the instant case, impugning the orders of the assessing authority and the appellate authority under the Electricity Act to the extent that they passed their respective orders in relation to the writ appellant, in a manner that was inconsistent with the terms of the Electricity Act. The brief facts necessary for a disposal of these two cases are as follows:

The appellant is a consumer of a High Tension Industrial connection from the KSEB and its monthly b