Supreme Court pulls up Maharashtra discom for defying relief order

The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to the top brass of Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company (MSEDC), including its CMD Vijay Singhal and its director finance Ravindra Sawant, asking them to explain why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against them for willfully disobeying its order that gave relief to captive producers/consumers of electricity like JSW Group of companies.

JSW Steel Coated Products, a part of JSW Group, being a captive consumer/user, had moved the contempt petition against MSEDC alleging that despite the SC holding that additional surcharge was not payable by it, the superintending engineer (O&M) had issued a disconnection notice and also raised a demand for arrears of additional surcharge to the tune of over Rs 4.35 crore.