Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission has deferred the hearing of Reliance Infrastructure's petition regarding MERC's order for switching over of RInfra's consumers to Tata Power.
RInfra-D earlier had filed an Appeal before the Hon’ble Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL) seeking for interim stay on the operation of the MERC Order dated 30 October, 2013. The Hon’ble APTEL has admitted the Appeal and in its Order dated 31 October, 2013, has directed as under:
“After hearing the parties, we are of the view that instead of granting stay of the Impugned Order, it would be better to direct the Appellant to approach the Commission to seek for the extension of time for the implementation of this impugned order. Accordingly ordered.
The Learned Senior Counsel for the Applicant also submits that the Applicant will file the application for extension of time tomorrow itself before the State Commission. In view of the fact that the Appellant will approach the Commission seeking for extension of time, we deem it appropriate to direct that implementation of the Impugned Order be postponed till the order is passed by the State Commission in the Application for seeking extension of time to be filed by the Appellant tomorrow i.e. on 01.11.2013.
The Commission may entertain the said application and consider the extension time for implementation and pass an order accordingly.”
RInfra-D has then filed an application to MERC requesting to postpone the implementation of the Order beyond 13 November, 2013, i.e., the date on which RInfra-D’s appeal is scheduled for hearing before the Hon’ble APTEL.
However, TPC-D submitted that RInfra-D has to justify its prayer for postponement of the migration of 8 lakh consumers from RInfra-D to TPC-D before the Commission. But neither the present application nor the Interim Application filed by RInfra before the Hon’ble APTEL discloses any specific issues or operational difficulties in the implementation of the directions.
During the hearing, the Commission asked RInfra-D to justify its request for extension of time and RInfra submitted that they will submit their say in writing to the Commission.
Considering the importance of the matter, the Commission hereby grants additional time till 30 November, 2013 to RInfra-D to make a detailed submission on affidavit on its request for extension of time for implementation of the Order.
The next hearing in the matter shall be held on 10 December, 2013. The date for implementation of the Commission’s Order has been postponed till 10 December, 2013.
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