Mukesh Kumar Singh vs The Managing Director Cum Chairman South Bihar Power Holding Company

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2026 Supreme(Online)(Pat) 109

PATNA HIGH COURT
HONOURABLE , CJ, HONOURABLE MR. RITESH KUMAR, J
Mukesh Kumar Singh – Appellant
Versus
The Managing Director Cum Chairman South Bihar Power Holding Company – Respondent

Advocates:
For the Appellant/s: Mr. Mani Bhushan Kumar
For the Respondent/s: Mr. Vivek Prasad
For the SBPDCL: Dr. Anand Kumar, Mr. Rajan Prakash, Ms. Anuradha Mishra

Table of Content
1. appellant's challenge to assessment order. (Para 1)
2. details of appeal process under electricity act. (Para 2)
3. appellant's eligibility for deposit required for appeal. (Para 3 , 4)
4. court's affirmation of alternative remedy availability. (Para 5 , 6)
5. disposition of appeal based on judicial observations. (Para 7)

(Per: HONOURABLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE)

Date : 08-01-2026 The appellant, Mukesh Kumar Singh, has filed this Letters Patent Appeal challenging the order dated 12.02.2025 passed in C.W.J.C. No. 18577 of 2024. The appellant had approached this Court for quashing/setting aside and stay of Final Assessment Letter No. 962 dated 04.10.2024, passed by the Assistant Electrical Engineer, Electric Supply Sub-Division, Didarganj, Patna. The learned Single Judge, in the impugned order, has been pleased to hold that an efficacious alternative remedy of filing an appeal under Section 127 of the Electricity Act, 2003 against the final assessment order is available to the appellant and therefore the writ petition was not entertained.

2. Section 127 of the Electricity Act, 2003 reads as follows:-

"127. Appeal to appellate authority.-(1) Any person aggrieved by a final or

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