Gas trouble for joint families
Posted on: 27/Nov/2012 9:31:47 AM
The Madras High Court had come to the rescue of a joint family holding multiple LPG connections, ordering that they be allowed to retain them.
This follows the Oil Marketing Companies(OMCs) drive to eliminate such connections.
The court had also ordered that the OMC had failed to take into account the hardship experienced by the household in question, which had three families.
The court had, in this case, pointed out that the family was having a common kitchen, and hence, it was unfair to ask them to surrender the connections.
While the OMCs’ drive to eliminate multiple connections may be aimed at preventing fraud, there may be genuine instances where certain consumers such as joint families need to have multiple LPG connections.
