JUDGMENT

Vipin Sanghi, CJ. - The petitioner has preferred the present writ petition to assail the order dated 20.06.2019, passed by the Electricity Ombudsman, Uttarakhand, in Representation No.19 of 2019. The petitioner-consumer had raised a grievance with regard to the electricity bill, raised by the respondent-licensee at the end of January, 2018 showing consumption of 19105 units. The Electricity Ombudsman has not found merit in the petitioner's representation, and rejected the same.

2. The case of the petitioner is that he is running a small hotel at Guptkashi, and his meter reading pattern would show that he has never consumed such a large amount of electricity, in any month. Prior to approaching to the Electricity Ombudsman, the petitioner had also approached the Electricity Consumer Grievance Redressal Forum, Srinagar, Garhwal, vide Complaint No.135 of 2018, which was rejected by the said Forum on 21.02.2019. It is against that order that the petitioner had approached the Electricity Ombudsman.

3. A perusal of the impugned order shows that the Electricity Ombudsman called upon the respondent- licensee to provide information regarding MRI of old meter for the period April 2014 t