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Se.14,15 and sec.42, 43 of Electricity Act - Application for Switch over from BEST to TPC FOR ELECTRICITY -BEST rejected permission on the ground that TPC can not supply Electricity in his area - application to Regulatory Commission - allowed - BEST filed appeals - dismissed - Apex court held that It is, therefore, difficult to accept the extreme position taken by the appellant that if local authority is a distribution licensee in a particular area, there cannot be any other distribution licensee in that area without the permission of such a local authority. Not only such a contention would negate the effect of universal supply obligation under Section 43, it will also amount to providing an exception which is not there either in Section 43 or Section 14 of the Act namely to treat local authority in special category and by giving it the benefit even that benefit which is not specified under the Act.= Brihanmumbai Electric Supply & Transport Undertaking ….Appellant Vs. Mahrashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) & Ors. ….Respondents = 2014(May.Part) http://judis.nic.in/supremecourt/filename=41519