Coastal Gujarat Power Ltd vs. Central Electricity Regulatory Commission

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ITEM NO.10 COURT NO.6 SECTION XVII

S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

Civil Appeal No(s). 5399-5400/2016

ENERGY WATCHDOG Appellant(s)

VERSUS

CENTRAL ELECTRICITY REGULATORY COMMISSION AND ORS. ETC. Respondent(s)

(With appln. (s) for permission to place Addl. documents on record, stay, exemption from filing c/c of the impugned judgment and office report) (for final disposal)

WITH C.A. No. 5347/2016 (With appln.(s) for directions and exemption from filing c/c of the impugned judgment and permission to file additional documents and Office Report)

C.A. No. 5348/2016 (With appln.(s) for directions and permission to file additional documents and Office Report)

C.A. No. 5364/2016 (With Office Report)

C.A. No. 5346/2016

(With appln.(s) for directions and exemption from filing c/c of the impugned judgment and permission to file additional documents and Office Report)

C.A. Nos. 5351-5352/2016 (With appln.(s) for exemption from filing c/c of the impugned judgment and ex-parte stay and Office Report)

C.A. No. 5415/2016 (With appln.(s) for stay and Office Report)

C.A. Nos. 9643-9644/2016 (With Office Report)

C.A. Nos. 9635-9642/2016 (With Office Report) Digitally signed by R.NATARAJAN Date: 2017.03.06 17:06:24 IST Reason: Signature Not Verified

C.A. No. 9035/2014 (With appln. (s) for directions and intervention and office report)

Date : 02/03/2017 These appeals were called on for hearing today. CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE PINAKI CHANDRA GHOSE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ROHINTON FALI NARIMAN Counsel for parties : Mr. M.G. Ramachandran, Adv. Mr. K. V. Mohan, AOR Ms. Anushree Bardhan, Adv. Ms. Poorva Saigal, Adv. Ms. Ranjitha Ramachandran, Adv. Mr. Shubham Arya, Adv. Mr. V. Giri, Sr. Adv. Mr. Anand Ganesan, Adv. Mr. Nikunj Dayal, AOR Mr. Pramod Dayal, Adv. Ms. Payal Dayal, Adv. Ms. Swapna Seshadri, Adv. Mr. Tushar Mehta, ASG Mr. G. Umapathy, Adv. Mr. Rakesh K. Sharma, Adv. Mr. Aditya Singh, Adv. Mr. Raj Kumar Mehta, AOR Mr. Abhishek Upadhyay, Adv. Mr. C.S. Vaidyanathan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Amit Kapur, Adv. Ms. Apoorva Mishra, Adv. Mr. Kunal Kaul, Adv. Mr. V. Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. Rohit Vankat, Adv. Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Munot, Adv. Mr. Uday Manaktala, Adv. Mr. Prashant Bhushan, AOR Mr. Pranav Sachdeva, AOR Ms. Neha Rathi, Adv. Amiy Shukla, Adv. Dr. A.M. Singhvi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Vikram Nankani, Sr. Adv. Mr. Amit Sibal, Sr. Adv. Ms. Poonam Verma, Adv. Ms. Abiha Zaidi, Adv. Mr. Mahesh Agarwal, Adv. Ms. Neaha, Adv.

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Ms. Aanchal Basur, Adv. Mr. Nakul Dewan, Adv. Ms. Ruby Singh Ahuja, Adv. Mr. Vishal Gehrana, Adv. Mr. Anupam Prakash, Adv. Mr. Harsh Trivedi, Adv. For M/s. Karanjawala & Co. Dr. A.M. Singhvi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Mahesh Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Kirpal, Adv. Mr. Nakul Diwan, Adv. Ms. Neeha Nagpal, Adv. Ms. Poonam Verma, Adv. Ms. A. Zaidi, Adv. Ms. Aanchal B., Adv. Ms. Malar Deliwala, Adv. Mr. Aviskar Singhvi, Adv. Mr. E.C. Agrawala, AOR Mr. Nikhil Nayyar, AOR Mr. N. Sai Vinod, Adv. Ms. Smriti Shah, Adv. Mr. Divyanshu Rai, Adv. Mr. Anup Jain, Adv. Mr. Udit Gupta, Adv. M/s Udit Kishan & Associates Mr. Amit Kapur, Adv. Mr. Rohit Venkat, Adv. Mr. V. Mukherjee, Adv. Raveena Dhamija, Adv. Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Uday Manaktala, Adv. Mr. P. Ramesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Alok Shankar, Adv. Mr. Vikas Upadhyay, AOR Mr. Sandeep Singh, Adv. Mr. Tushar Mehta, ASG Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR Ms. Jesal Wahi, Adv. Mr. Sidharth Sethi, AOR Mr. Sumit Kumar, AOR Mr. Rajiv Srivastava, Adv. Ms. Gargi Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Pathak, Adv.

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Kumari Supriya, Adv. Mr. Prasant Kumar, Adv. Mr. Rajiv Kapoor, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Chakraborty, Adv. Mr. Ram Kumar Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Anup Jain, AOR Mr. Udit Gupta, Adv. Ms. Udita Singh, AOR Mr. Rahul Dhawan, Adv. Mr. Abhijeet Rastogi, Adv. Mr. Pradeep Misra, Adv. Mr. Suraj Singh, Adv.

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R

Mr. M.G. Ramachandran, learned counsel appearing for the appellant in Civil Appeal No. 5346-5348 of 2016 resumed his arguments at 10.50 a.m. and concluded at 12.40 p.m. Thereafter, Mr. Pranav Sachdeva and Mr. Prashant Bhushan, learned counsel appearing for the appellant in C.A. Nos. 5399-5400 of 2016, Mr. Raj Kumar Mehta, learned counsel appearing for the appellant in C.A. No. 5415 of 2016 and Mr. Anand K. Ganesan, learned counsel appearing for the appellant in C.A. No. 5364 of 2016 submitted their respective arguments and concluded the same.

Thereafter, Mr. Vikran Nankani, learned senior counsel appearing for the respondent No.2 in C.A. No. 5348 of 2016 started his arguments and was on his legs when the Court rose for the day leaving the matters as part-heard.

List these matters on Wednesday, the 8th March, 2017 as part-heard.

(R. NATARAJAN) (SAROJ KUMARI GAUR) Court Master Court Master

Book Cited:- The Electricity Act, 2003 The Indian Contract, 1872 (1994) 4 SCC 104

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