PATNA, India, Feb. 18 -- Patna High Court issued the following judgment on Feb. 6:
Heard Mr. Subodh Prasad, the learned Advocate for the petitioner and Mr. Anand Kumar Ojha, the learned Senior Advocate for the Electricity Department. The State has been represented by Mr. Akhileshwar Singh, the learned AC to GA-2.
2. The petitioner had initially come before this Court with the main prayer of exempting him from making payment of demand charges/fixed charges and minimum charges as also re-connection charges for renewing his disconnected electric connection. Later, during the course of argument, he chose to challenge the validity of Section 7.14(4) of the Bihar Electricity Supply Code of 2007.
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