LHC strikes down fuel adjustment charges

LAHORE (INP): The Lahore High Court (LHC), Rawalpindi Circuit bench on Tuesday quashed fuel adjustment charges from the electricity bills. The LHC Rawalpindi Circuit bench while hearing a plea moved against a collection of fuel adjustment charges from the consumers in the electricity bills struck down fuel adjustment charges.
Justice Jawadul Hassan directed WAPDA and NEPRA not to charge tax in the electricity bills of consumers. The LHC judge has also summoned the Islamabad Electric Supply Company (IESCO) chief on September 15. It may be noted that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, last week, announced that 17 million of the total power consumers will be exempted from paying the high fuel charges adjustment (FCA) in their electricity bills.
Meanwhile, the Sindh High Court (SHC) has issued notices to National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) and K-Electric on the petition against the collection of fuel adjustment charges and taxes in the electricity bills.
According to details, a hearing was held in the SHC on the Jamaat-e-Islami leader Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman’s constitutional petition against the collection of huge amount in the form of fuel adjustment charges and taxes by K Electric.
Advocate Usman Farooq, the lawyer of the petitioner Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman, argued in the court and said that K-Electric should be stopped from over-billing and collection of fuel adjustment and other charges including sales and income tax, TV license fee in the electricity bill.