New Delhi [India], April 17 (ANI): While dismissing a leave to appeal by Tata Power against a trial court order, the Delhi High Court said that it is for the prosecution to prove that an electricity meter has been damaged for electricity theft. This burden cannot be shifted to the other side. Justice Navin Chawla dismissed the leave to appeal against the trial court judgment and said that it was for the petitioner to prove that the meter had been ‘dishonestly’ burned by the respondent. “The petitioner having failed to prove the same, cannot shift this burden on the respondent by placing relian…
