Declining to interfere with the power crisis in the capital as the Supreme Court is seized of the matter, the Delhi High Court granted liberty to the NGO Tapas to implead itself in the matter before the apex court.
NEW DELHI: Declining to interfere with the power crisis in the capital as the Supreme Court is seized of the matter, the Delhi High Court granted liberty to the NGO Tapas to implead itself in the matter before the apex court.
Disposing of the PIL filed by the NGO in 1999 through its chairman Vinod Kumar Jain, a division bench of Justices MK Sharma and Hima Kohli directed the petitioner to move a fresh application before the apex court on the issue.
The bench passed the direction after the Delhi government's counsel told the high court that the power crisis in the capital was being monitored by the Supreme Court.
Tapas had in 1995 moved a PIL in the high court, complaining about the acute power crisis in Delhi and the government's failure to take proper steps to tackle the situation.
However, the Delhi government, in an affidavit filed in July 2000, assured the court that 10 new power plants were being set up in the city and the crisis would be resolved in three years.
In July, the NGO filed a contempt petition complaining that the government had retracted on its assurance made to the court that the power projects would be completed in three years.
It was alleged that even six years after its assurance, the government failed to build the power plants on account of which the city continues to reel under a severe power crisis.
However, as the Supreme Court had on August 21, 2006 directed the Delhi government to file a status report with three weeks on plans proposed to be undertaken for solving the power crisis, the bench felt there could not be duplication and multiplicity of proceedings on the same course of action.
Accordingly, it directed the NGO to move the apex court on the issue by moving a fresh application.
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