{"id":67419,"date":"2026-08-26T02:07:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/67419"},"modified":"2026-08-26T02:08:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:08:01","slug":"lhc-rules-disconnection-of-domestic-power-connection-unlawful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/67419","title":{"rendered":"LHC rules disconnection of domestic power connection unlawful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>The Lahore High Court (LHC) has ruled that a domestic electricity connection cannot be disconnected to recover outstanding dues owed by an industrial unit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Justice Jawad Hassan issued the ruling while disposing of a petition filed by Ghazi Khan, who had challenged the disconnection of his household electricity supply over unpaid dues linked to an industrial unit.<\/p>\n<p>The court directed the relevant authorities to resolve the matter in accordance with the law after giving all parties, including the petitioner, an opportunity to be heard.<\/p>\n<p>LHC ordered to decide matter within two weeks and that a reasoned order be issued.<\/p>\n<p>The court also barred the authorities from taking any disciplinary action against the petitioner in the meantime.<\/p>\n<p>The Lahore High Court held that disconnecting a domestic electricity connection based on outstanding industrial dues was not legally justified.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/lhc-rules-disconnection-of-domestic-power-connection-unlawful\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lahore High Court (LHC) has ruled that a domestic electricity connection cannot be disconnected to recover outstanding dues owed by an industrial unit. Justice Jawad Hassan issued the ruling while disposing of a petition filed by Ghazi Khan, who had challenged the disconnection of his household electricity supply over unpaid dues linked to an industrial unit. The court directed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/Power-disconnection-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":3630,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":3630,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67421,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67419\/revisions\/67421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}