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Executive Acting In Breach Of Judgments Would Be Invitation To Anarchy: Supreme Court Pulls Up Centre For Not Making Appointment In CERC

"We have shown considerable restraint in this matter. ", remarked the Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul while it pulled up the Central Government for not appointing law member in Central Electricity Regulatory Commission.Expressing its anguish, the court observed that the 'Government does not seem to be interested in coming. ", remarked the Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul while it pulled up the Central Government for not appointing law member in Central Electricity Regulatory Commission. Expressing its anguish, the court observed that the 'Government does not seem to be interested in coming to the aid of the consumers or making the Commission functional, which is not an unusual scenario seeing the functioning of the other Tribunals and Commissions, on account of lack of appointments to deal with the matter.' The court, observing that there is prima facie willful disobedience, had earlier directed two members of the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission to go on leave until a Member law is appointed to the Commission.

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