ORDER :

Out of the above Writ Petitions, Writ Petition Nos.7130, 7148, 7168, 7183, 7189, 7192, 7202, 7207, 7208, 7310, 7313, 7363, 7376, , 7462, 7466, 7478, 7531, 7540, 7724, 7811, 8001, 8011, 8019, 8116, 8712, 8725, 8742, 8881, 8891, 8897, 8923, 9204, 9232, 9424, 9443, 9458, 9531, 9599, 9671, 9702, 9899, 11413 and 13885 of 2020 relate to challenging the action of respondent Nos.2 to 4 in not collecting maximum demand charges for the month of April, 2020 on pro-rata basis viz., working and nonworking periods (closure days) as highly illegal and arbitrary.

2. Whereas, Writ Petition Nos.7185, 7236, 7237, 7240, 7465, 7480, 7550, 7552, 7682, 7778, 8025, 8146, 8307, 8521, 8621, 8648, 8914, 8959, 9108, 9216, 9230, 9233 and 9582 of 2020 relate to challenging the action of respondents in levying and demanding the amount under various head as wholly illegal and arbitrary.

3. CONTENTIONS OF THE PETITIONERS (MAXIMUM):

(i) All the petitioners in the above writ petitions are Companies/Partnership Firms/Proprietary concerns. They are Manufacturing Units/Commercial Establishments. All the petitioners have obtained High Tension (HT) Service Connections from the respondents’ authorities with a contract