The court deferred the crucial hearing after the counsel appearing for Delhi government and the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India said that their appeals against the High Court verdict are in the process of being filed and hence, it would be proper to hear all of them together.
“We are public service utility company and we work for benefit of consumers and are accountable to Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) according to the Electricity Act," said Praveer Sinha, MD & CEO of Tata Power Delhi Distribution.
Reliance took over BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd (BRPL) in 2002 in partnership with the Delhi state government. It was a rare foray by a private company into the power distribution business, which is mostly controlled by India's 28 states.
State-run DVC on Thursday said it may have to stop power supply to Delhi, as the two distribution companies BSES Rajdhani Power and BSES Yamuna Power are yet to make outstanding payments to the company.
The city's power distribution firm BSES Rajdhani Power has been fined Rs 25,000 by a Delhi consumer court for raising an inflated electricity bill of Rs 1.17 lakh against an user and lodging a false power theft case against him.