1. The above second appeal has been filed against the judgment and decree of the learned District Judge, Salem, dated 1. 1983 in A.S. No. 129 of 1982, whereunder, the First/Appellate Judge has chosen to set aside and reverse the judgment and decree of the learned trial Judge and dismissed the suit.

2. The suit O.S.No.225 of 1981 was filed by the respondent-plaintiff on the file of the District Munsif Court, Mettur, for declaring that the claim of Rs. 14,536.20 said to be the penal charges on the excess over quote consumption for service connection 702 of Omalur, which stands in the name of the plaintiff and included in the electric bill for the month of July, 1980 is illegal, arbitrary and unenforceable in law and for a permanent injunction restraining them from disconnecting the service connection for the nonpayment of the alleged sum of Rs. 14,5320. The service connection in question pertains to a cinema theatre at Omalur and there can be no dispute that at the relevant point of time, quota system was enforced on account of the power cut between September, 1976 and April, 1977 during which period, the plaintiff was said to have been given only 500 Units of electricit