JUDGMENT: Aggrieved by the judgment and decree of the Additional Subordinate Judge, Cuddalore, passed in A.S.No.18 of 1993 dated 29.11.1993 reversing the judgment and decree of the District Munsif, Panruti passed in O.S.No.668 of 1989 dated 23.11.1992, the defendants have filed this second appeal.

2. The case of plaintiff-in-brief is as follows:

Plaintiff is an agriculturist and is doing agricultural operations at Kiliruppu Village, Panruti Taluk. For irrigating the land, he obtained an electricity service connection bearing S.C.No.102 from the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board. He was regular in payment of electricity consumption charges to the Board without any default. That being the position, the plaintiff came to know about a complaint lodged by the Assistant Engineer, Rural South, Tamil Nadu Electricity Board and the same was registered as a case in Crl.No.236 of 1989 on the file of Kadampuliyur police station for committing theft of electric energy by way of illegal tapping of energy from a main line. Thereafter, the second defendant issued a show-cause notice to the plaintiff by letter dated 26.6.1989, wherein, it has been stated that the plaintiff extracted energy by means of i

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