Delhi govt moves SC over new DERC chief

NEW DELHI: The tussle between the elected govt and L-G over the appointment of the chairperson of Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) has reached the country’s top court as Delhi government has challenged the Centre’s June 21 decision of appointing former Allahabad HC judge Justice Umesh Kumar as its new chief.

Notably, the Delhi government had termed the Central government decision of posting Justice Kumar as “illegal and unconstitutional”. Last week, Delhi power minister Atishi had said that although CM Arvind Kejriwal on June 21 had sent a recommendation of the name of Justice Sangeet Lodha (retired) for the post of the DERC chairperson but the same was ‘wilfully ignored by the President’.