Amid free power debate, Delhi gencos enlist AG to fight BSES in SC for payment
NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing debate over free or subsidised power and their ill effect on the finances of distribution companies, Delhi government’s generation companies have enlisted the country’s top law officer to represent them in the Supreme Court in a eight-year-old payment dispute with BSES distribution companies.
Sources said Indraprastha Power Generation Company Ltd and Pragati Power Corporation Ltd have appointed attorney-general (AG) R Venkataramani to represent them in the suit seeking full payment for power they supply to BSES for distribution.
This is perhaps the first time that the top two federal law officers of the country are being deployed in a suit involving recovery of dues from a discom as solicitor-general Tushar Mehta, the second senior most law officer, is representing the power ministry that has been made a party.
