{"id":369367,"date":"2020-08-22T11:53:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T06:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=369367"},"modified":"2020-08-22T11:53:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T06:23:56","slug":"delhi-high-court-declines-pil-against-power-bill-calculation-by-discoms-says-approach-derc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-high-court-declines-pil-against-power-bill-calculation-by-discoms-says-approach-derc-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi High Court declines PIL against power bill calculation by discoms; says approach DERC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court Friday declined to entertain a PIL alleging that power distribution companies (discoms) here calculated bills for the lockdown months by an &#8220;unjust and arbitrary&#8221; method and suggested to the petitioner to first approach the electricity regulator, DERC.<\/p>\n<p>A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan, right at the commencement of the hearing, said the petitioner &#8212; a doctor &#8212; ought to have moved the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) which would be the competent body to decide how the discoms should calculate the bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court Friday declined to entertain a PIL alleging that power distribution companies (discoms) here calculated bills for the lockdown months by an &#8220;unjust and arbitrary&#8221; method and suggested to the petitioner to first approach the electricity regulator, DERC. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan, right at the commencement of the hearing, said the petitioner &#8212; a doctor &#8212; ought to have moved the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) which would be the competent body to decide how the discoms should calculate the bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}