The Centre told the Delhi High Court on Friday that it has not given a sanction for the attachment of DMRC’s operational assets while hearing the payment of 2017 arbitral dues to Reliance Infrastructure-arm Delhi Airport Metro Express Private Ltd (DAMEPL), by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).
Justice Yashwant Varma said he will have to see the extent to which Section 89 of the Metro Railways (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002 applies and, notwithstanding Section 89, what directions can be given for execution of the arbitral award.
Section 89(1) says that “no rolling stock, metro railway tracks, machinery, plant, tools, fittings, materials or effects used or provided by a metro railway administration for traffic on its railway,
