ORDER

The Petitioner, Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (in short ‘MSEDCL’) has filed this Petition under Section 79 (1)(f) of the Electricity Act, 2003 (the Act) seeking the following relief(s):

(a) Declare that the invoices raised by the Respondent No. 1 against the Petitioner, as more specifically set out in ANNEXURE P – 28 to this Petition, as void, non-est and illegal;

(b) Restrain the Respondent No.1 from issuing any further invoices under the terminated PPA dated 10.04.2007 and from uploading any further invoices on the PRAAPTI portal, seeking payment thereof;

(c) Direct Respondents No. 2 and 3 to restore Petitioner’s short-term access and full GNA;

(d) Restrain the Respondents from taking any coercive steps against the Petitioner in furtherance of such impermissible, inapplicable, void, non-est and arbitrary invoices, including by way of regulation of GNA and open access under the framework of the LPS Rules;

(e) Pass ad-interim / interim / ex-parte order(s) in respect of the prayer (b), (c) and (d) hereinabove; and

(f) Pass any other further order as this Hon’ble Commission may deem fit and proper in the fact and circumstances of the case.

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