Coastal Gujarat Power Ltd vs. Central Electricity Regulatory Commission

z'1 ITEM NO.8 COURT NO.6 SECTION XVII (Part heard) 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 exemption from filing c/c of the impugned judgment and permission to place Addl. documents on record and stay 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) C.A. No. 9035/2014 (With appln. (s) for directions and intervention and office report) 2 T.P.(C) No. 393/2017 (With office report) T.P.(C) Nos. 406-408/2017 (With office report) T.P.(C) Nos. 388-392/2017 (With office report) Date : 28/03/2017 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 : Dr. A.M. Singhvi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Vikram Nankani, 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 Basul, Adv. Ms. Malay Deliwala, Adv. Mr. Aviskar Singhvi, Adv. Mr. Aditya Shankar, Adv. Mr. E.C. Agrawala, AOR Mr. M.G. Ramachandran, Adv. Mr. K. V. Mohan, AOR Ms. Ranjitha Ramachandran, Adv. Ms. Poorva Saigal, Adv. Ms. Anushree Bardhan, Adv. Mr. Shubham Arya, Adv. Mr. Nikhil Nayyar, AOR Mr. N. Sai Vinod, Adv.

Ms. Smriti Shah, Adv. Mr. Divyanshu Rai, 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, AOR Mr. Aditya Singh, Adv. Mr. M.A. Venkata Subramanian, Adv. 3 Mr. Tushar Mehta, ASG Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR Ms. Jesal Wahi, Adv. Ms. Puja Singh, Adv. Mr. Kapil Sibal , Sr. 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, AOR Mr. Abhishek Munot, Adv. Mr. Uday Manaktala, Adv. Ms. Raveena Dhamija, Adv. Ms. Ruby Singh Ahuja, Adv. Mr. Vishal Gehrana, Adv. Mr. Anupam Prakash, Adv. Mr. Harsh Trivedi, Adv. Mrs. Manik Karanjawala, Adv. For M/s. Karanjawala & Co. Mr. Rajiv Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Sumit Kumar, AOR Ms. Gargi Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Prashant Kumar, Adv. Mr. Rajiv Kapoor, Adv. Ms. Kumari Supriya, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Chakraborty, Adv. Mr. Ram Kumar Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Mishra, AOR Mr. Abhishek Singh, Adv. Mr. Raj Kumar Mehta, AOR Mr. Elangam Premjit Singh, Adv. Ms. Himanshi Andley, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Upadhyay, Adv. Sri Harsha Peechara, Adv. Mr. Arjun Krishnan, Adv. Ms. Udita Singh, AOR Mr. Rahul Dhawan, Adv. Mr. Abhijeet Rastogi, Adv. Mr. Pradeep Misra, AOR Ms. Indu Misra, Adv. 4 Mr. Alok Shankar, Adv. Mr. Vikas Upadhyay, AOR Mr. Anup Jain, AOR Mr. Prashant Bhushan, AOR Mr. Pranav Sachdeva, AOR Mr. Sidharth Sethi, AOR Mr. Chandra Prakash, AOR Mr. Kumar Mihir, AOR Mr. Tushar Bakshi, AOR UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R Dr. A.M. Singhvi , learned senior counsel appearing for the respondent (s) started his arguments at 10.55 a.m. and concluded at 1.00 p.m. Thereafter, Mr. Kapil Sibal, learned senior counsel appearing for Respondent No.2 in C.A. No. 5347/2016 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 29 th March, 2017 as part-heard. (R. NATARAJAN) (SNEH LATA SHARMA) Court Master Court Master Books cited :- The Electricity Act, 2003 The Indian Contract, 1872 [1961] 3 SCR 1020 (1976) 4 SCC 147 1932 All. E. L. R. 494