{"id":375451,"date":"2020-09-26T11:47:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T06:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=375451"},"modified":"2020-09-26T11:49:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T06:19:21","slug":"lack-of-quorum-supreme-court-extends-cerc-hearing-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lack-of-quorum-supreme-court-extends-cerc-hearing-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of quorum: Supreme Court extends CERC hearing suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday said that hearings at the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) cannot happen until the regulator does not appoint a person from law as a commission member.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court, in its August 28 order, had indefinitely suspended CERC hearings due to short-staff, leading to no cases being heard throughout September. The SC had then asked two of the regulator\u2019s members to go on leave. The apex court\u2019s decision was in response to a plea seeking to enforce its own 2018 order which mandated a person from law to be appointed first as commission members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday said that hearings at the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) cannot happen until the regulator does not appoint a person from law as a commission member. The apex court, in its August 28 order, had indefinitely suspended CERC hearings due to short-staff, leading to no cases being heard throughout September. The SC had then asked two of the regulator\u2019s members to go on leave. The apex court\u2019s decision was in response to a plea seeking to enforce its own 2018 order which mandated a person from law to be appointed first as commission members.<\/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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375451","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=375451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}