{"id":652393,"date":"2025-11-12T09:55:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=652393"},"modified":"2025-11-12T11:13:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T05:43:34","slug":"hc-dismisses-plea-against-merc-recording-halt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/hc-dismisses-plea-against-merc-recording-halt\/","title":{"rendered":"HC dismisses plea against MERC recording halt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bombay High Court (HC) on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by a Mumbai activist challenging a decision of the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) to discontinue audio\/video recordings of the proceedings, after holding that such recordings of the proceedings cannot be used as \u2018evidence\u2019 in any court of law. <\/p>\n<p>While rejecting a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Mumbai resident Kamlakar Ratnakar Shenoy, an HC division bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Ashvin Akhand noted that the PIL lacked \u2018public interest\u2019 and was instead \u2018motivated by personal grievances.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bombay High Court (HC) on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by a Mumbai activist challenging a decision of the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) to discontinue audio\/video recordings of the proceedings, after holding that such recordings of the proceedings cannot be used as \u2018evidence\u2019 in any court of law. While rejecting a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Mumbai resident Kamlakar Ratnakar Shenoy, an HC division bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Ashvin Akhand noted that the PIL lacked \u2018public interest\u2019 and was instead \u2018motivated by personal grievances.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652393","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}