Haryana Government has extended the “Out of Court Settlement of Pending Court Cases/Arbitration Cases Scheme” pertaining to various categories of electricity consumers’ upto March 31.
The scheme would be applicable for settlement of all disputes of electricity consumers pending in Courts including District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum (DCDRF), Consumer Grievances Redressal Forum (CGRF), State Commission or in Arbitration and cases under appeal with Appellate Authority, as on November 30, 2017, said a spokesman of Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam.
He said that the scheme would also be applicable to electricity consumers or users against whom criminal cases on account of theft of energy were pending in any court of law or only FIR had been lodged upto November 30, 2017 against them irrespective of whether challan has been submitted or not submitted to the court of law.
Such consumers would become eligible to avail the benefit of scheme only after payment of compounding charges, the spokesman said.
All the officers of the Nigam have been directed to make all out efforts to settle maximum number of disputes pending in courts, arbitration, DCDRF and State Commission, added he.