Is it obligatory for an accountant liquidating meters at an electricity company to leave his job if regulations do not permit the return of financial differences to citizens when there is an overcharge in a previous bill compared to actual consumption, especially given his difficult financial circumstances and numerous debts? And is the meter reader who records fictitious readings for subscribers' meters sinful because he is assigned a workload beyond his capacity, or is the manager who assigns him that workload sinful?
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If your work is limited to proving an increase or decrease without the ability to return the excess, then there is no blame upon you for that. The citizen should complain to the responsible authority. Officials can be advised to account for the excess in subsequent bills. As for the second issue, the meter reader and the manager are partners in sin for forging fictitious bills and wronging people; because of the Almighty’s saying: "And do not cooperate in sin and aggression."
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