SUBJECT WISE INDEXAnimal WelfareSupreme Court upholds laws allowing jallikattu, kambala & bull-cart racing In Tamil Nadu, Karnataka & Maharashtra. Animal Welfare Board of India v. Union of India, 2023.
The Supreme Court has ruled that electricity dues of the previous owner of a property can be recovered from an auction purchaser or the subsequent owner.A bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud and comprising Justices Hima .
NEW DELHI The Supreme Court has ruled that electricity dues of the previous owner of a property can be recovered from an auction purchaser or the subsequent owner. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud and comprising Justices Hima Kohli and P.S. Narasimha said: “A condition enabling the distribution licensee to insist on the clearance of the arrears of electricity dues of the previous consumer before resuming electricity supply to the premises is valid and permissible under the scheme of the 2003 Act (Electricity Act 2003)”. The apex court was examining the issue raised in a batch of appeals, whether the arrears of unpaid electricity dues outstanding from the erstwhile owner can be claimed from the subsequent owner, who has acquired the property in proceedings initiated to enforce mortgages or to pay off the dues of creditors. The electric utilities had argued that the duty to supply electricity under Section 43 of the 2003 Act is not absolute and in c