{"id":644817,"date":"2025-09-02T12:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T06:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=644817"},"modified":"2025-09-02T12:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T06:38:06","slug":"sc-junks-plea-for-ethanol-free-petrol-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sc-junks-plea-for-ethanol-free-petrol-option\/","title":{"rendered":"SC junks plea for ethanol-free petrol option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking mandatory availability of ethanol-free petrol (E0) at all fuel stations, after the Centre strongly opposed the plea and termed it an attempt to undermine a national policy.<\/p>\n<p>A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Bhushan R Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran refused to entertain the petition, even as the government, represented by Attorney General R Venkataramani, alleged that a \u201clobby\u201d was working against India\u2019s ethanol-blending programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking mandatory availability of ethanol-free petrol (E0) at all fuel stations, after the Centre strongly opposed the plea and termed it an attempt to undermine a national policy. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Bhushan R Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran refused to entertain the petition, even as the government, represented by Attorney General R Venkataramani, alleged that a \u201clobby\u201d was working against India\u2019s ethanol-blending programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644817","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}