Served: Pre-admission notice served to KESC chief

Petitioner questions KESC's billing process after he receives inflated bill.

KARACHI:

A division bench of the High Court of Sindh (SHC), comprising Justice Munib Akhtar and Justice Salman Hamid, ordered the issuance of pre-admission notices to the Karachi Electric Supply Company’s chief executive officer for January 12, in a petition filed by a textile loom factory owner M Aleem Asif.

The petitioner states that he installed a number of machines and was receiving a monthly bill ranging from Rs12,000 to Rs18,000. He stated that he regularly paid the bill. However, KESC sent him a bill of Rs170,869 for the month of December 2011. The petitioner questioned the utility’s billing process and asked the court to declare the disputed bill as excessive and not liable to be paid.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 4^th, 2012.