The Consumer Association of Bangladesh (CAB) today served a legal notice to the authorities concerned, asking them to take necessary steps to stop collecting inflated power bills from consumers over the last three months.

Lawyer Jyotirmoy Barua sent the legal notice on behalf of Architect Mubassar Hussein, the convener of CAB.

In the notice, he requested authorities to take appropriate action against officials and staff responsible for inflating the power bills.

The legal notice was sent to the secretary of the energy and power ministry, chairman of Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission, and representatives of Rural Electrification Board, Dhaka Power Development Company and Dhaka Electricity Supply Company.

The respondents have been asked to take necessary steps in five days.

Jyotirmoy also requested respondents to take steps to prepare correct electricity bills by examining the meter reading, not to take extra bills and delay fees from consumers and to publish in the website the number of inflated bills that were prepared and how much extra bill was collected from the consumers.

He told The Daily Star that he will move a writ petition before the High Court seeking necessary directives if the respondents do not take steps in line with the requirements of the legal notice.