IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision : 27.10.2025 Sub Divisional Officer and another ....Appellants Versus Smt. Kamla Devi ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE PANKAJ JAIN Present : Mr. Surinder K. Mahajan, Advocate for the appellants.

PANKAJ JAIN, J. (ORAL)

Defendants are in second appeal, aggrieved of the judgment and decree passed by the Courts below.

2. The issue involved in the present regular second appeal relates to jurisdiction of Civil Court qua disputes between electricity supplier and the consumer wherein the supplier alleges theft of electricity against consumer.

3. Counsel for the appellants claims that the issue is covered in favour of the electricity supplier in terms of ratio of law laid down by Division Bench of this Court in RSA No.4181 of 2016 titled as ‘Mahesh Kumar vs. Sub Divisional Officers and another’ decided on 14.05.2025.

4. I have heard counsel for the appellant and have carefully gone through records of the case and the ratio of law laid down by Division Bench in Mahesh Kumar’s case (supra).

5. Keeping in view conflicting decisions by different Benches of this Court, the following question was formulated by the Single Ben