Coastal Gujarat Power Ltd vs. Central Electricity Regulatory Commission

2*ITEM NO.10(PH) COURT NO.6 SECTION XVII/XVIA 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 Respondent(s) ORS. ETC. (With appln.(s) for permission to place addl. documents on record, stay, exemption from filing c/c of the impugned judgment and office report) WITH C.A. No. 5347/2016 (With 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 directions and permission to file additional documents and Office Report) C.A. No. 5364/2016 (Office Report) C.A. No. 5346/2016 (With directions and exemption from filing c/c of the impugned Judgment and permission to file additional documents and Office Report) C.A. No. 5351-5352/2016 (With exemption from filing c/c of the impugned Judgment and ex-Parte stay and Office Report) C.A. No. 5415/2016 (With stay and Office Report) C.A. No. 9643-9644/2016 (With Office Report) C.A. No. 9635-9642/2016 (Office Report) C.A. No. 9035/2014 (With directions and intervention and Office Report) T.P.(C) No. 393/2017 (Office Report) T.P.(C) No. 406-408/2017 (Office Report) T.P.(C) No. 388-392/2017 (Office Report) Date: 29/03/2017 These appeals and TPs were called on for hearing today. -2- CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE PINAKI CHANDRA GHOSE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ROHINTON FALI NARIMAN Counsel appearing for the parties: - Mr. H.N. Salve, Sr. Adv. (N.P.) 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 Basul, Adv. Ms. Malay Deliwala, Adv. Mr. Aviskar Singhvi, Adv. Mr. Aditya Shankar, Adv. Mr. E.C. Agrawala, AOR 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. Kapil Sibal , Sr. Adv. Mr. C.S. Vaidyanathan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Amit Kapur, Adv. Mr. V. Mukherjee, Adv. Ms. Apoorva Mishra, Adv. Mr. Kunal Kaul, Adv. Mr. Rohit Vankat, Adv. Ms. Raveena Dhamija, Adv. Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Abhishek Munot, Adv. Mr. Uday Manaktala, Adv. Mr. Amit Sibal, Sr. Adv. (N.P.) 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. 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. -3- Mr. Nikhil Nayyar, AOR

Mr. N. Sai Vinod, Adv. Ms. Smriti Shah, Adv. Mr. Divyanshu Rai, Adv. Mr. Tushar Mehta, ASG Mr. G. Umapathy, Adv. Mr. Rakesh K. Sharma, AOR Mr. Aditya Singh, Adv. Mr. M.A. Venkata Subramanian, Adv. Mr. Tushar Mehta, ASG Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR Ms. Jesal Wahi, Adv. Ms. Mamta Singh, Adv. Mr. Tushar Mehta, Sr. Adv. Mr. K. Parameshwar, Adv. Mr. Udit Gupta, Adv. Mr. Anup Jain, Adv. Mr. Rajiv Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Sumit Kumar, AOR Ms. Kumari Supriya, Adv. Mr. Rajiv Kapoor, Adv. Mr. Prashant Kumar, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Chakraborty, Adv. Mr. Ram Kumar Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Sumit Kumar, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Mishra, AOR Mr. Dhan Raj, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Singh, Adv. Mr. Raj Kumar Mehta, AOR Mr. Elangam Premjit Singh, Adv. Ms. Himanshi Andley, Adv. Mr. Pradeep Misra, AOR Ms. Indu Misra, Adv. Mr. Suraj Singh, Adv. Sri Harsha Peechara, Adv. Mr. Arjun Krishnan, Adv. Mr. D. Bharathi Reddy, Adv. Ms. Udita Singh, AOR Mr. Rahul Dhawan, Adv. Mr. Abhijeet Rastogi, Adv. Mr. Alok Shankar, Adv. Mr. Vikas Upadhyay, AOR

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R Mr. Kapil Sibal, learned Senior counsel appearing for Respondent No.2 in Civil Appeal No.5347 of 2016 resumed his arguments at 2.55 p.m. and was on his legs when the Court rose for the day leaving the matters as Part-Heard. During the course of hearing, learned Senior counsel has given us (i) brief Note on impact of Force Majeure on Coastal Gujarat Power Limited, (ii) Comparison of competitive bidding guidelines as on 19-1-2005 and competitive bidding guidelines amended on 18-8-2006, (iii) a chart containing provisions of the Act and (iv) Annual Impact on Consumer (State-wise) if C.E.R.C's Order dated 6-12-2016 is implemented for the month of August, 2015, in the Court today, after serving its copies to the other side. Learned Senior counsel is requested to give us the chart containing calculations indicating therein the percentage of relief they have got from the C.E.R.C. Learned Senior counsel informs us that the calculations will be given tomorrow. As prayed, list the matters tomorrow i.e., 30 th March, 3017 as Part-Heard. (VISHAL ANAND) (SNEH LATA SHARMA) COURT MASTER COURT MASTER

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