JUDGMENT :

B.R. Sarangi, J.

1. The petitioners, who are the consumers of electricity have filed these applications assailing the demand of additional security amount as per clause-20 of O.E.R.C. (Distribution and condition of supply) Code, 2004 (hereinafter referred to as the 'Code 2004) when they have requested to install pre-paid meter as per clause-19(2) of the Code, 2004 and claim for return of the security deposit already paid by them.

All these above mentioned writ petitions have involved same questions of law. Therefore, they have been heard together and disposed of by this common judgment. For the better adjudication of the matter, the fact of W.P.(C) No. 8436 of 2012 has been taken into consideration for deciding the lis.

2. The epitome of facts involved in W.P.(C) No. 8436 of 2012 is that the petitioner being a consumer of electricity enjoying the power supply in consonance with the provisions contained in Indian Electricity Act, 2003 (hereinafter referred to as Act 2003) and rules framed thereunder as well as Code, 2004 read with C.E.A. (Installation & Operation of Metering) Regulations, 2006 (hereinafter referred to as the 'Regulation, 2006). Initially power supply was give