section 29
Fraud in respect of meters
The Sikkim Water Supply and Water Charges Act, 2025Infrastructure202543 sections
Statutory text
- (1) No person shall fraudulently, -
- (a) alter the index of any meter, or prevent any meter from recording the actual quantity of water supplied; or
- (b) abstract or use water before it has been recorded by a meter set up for the purpose of recording the same.
- (2) Where there has been any such alteration, prevention abstraction or use, the existence of artificial means under the control of the consumer for causing any such alteration, prevention, abstraction or use, shall be the evidence of the consumer having fraudulently affected the same.
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