New Delhi, February 19
The Delhi High Court today directed the city administration not to go ahead with the controversial move of the erstwhile AAP government to waive 50 per cent dues of the electricity consumers who had not paid their bills from October 2012 to December 2013.
A Bench comprising Justices BD Ahmed and Siddharth Mridul passed the oral order while hearing PIL petitioner, Vivek Sharma, who pleaded that such reliefs would result in chaos as defaulters ought to be penalised, not rewarded.
Posting the next hearing for February 21, the high court said it was not clear from official records as to whether the Delhi Cabinet had cleared the proposal for waiving the bill amounts. It asked the state’s standing counsel to file an affidavit, if necessary, clarifying the status.
Vivek Sharma contended that, according to media reports, the Lieutenant Governor had directed all government departments to implement the major decisions of the Arvind Kejriwal regime that was in power for 49 days before quitting in protest against the attitude of the Congress and BJP in stonewalling its move to introduce the Jan Lokpal Bill in the Assembly.
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