{"id":29725,"date":"2013-08-16T00:48:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T19:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=29725"},"modified":"2013-08-16T00:48:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T19:18:37","slug":"plea-in-sc-questions-natural-gas-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/plea-in-sc-questions-natural-gas-pricing","title":{"rendered":"Plea in SC questions natural gas pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/natural-gas.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"29726\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/plea-in-sc-questions-natural-gas-pricing\/natural-gas\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/natural-gas.jpg?fit=201%2C251&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"201,251\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"natural gas\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/natural-gas.jpg?fit=200%2C250&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-29726\" alt=\"natural gas\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/natural-gas-200x250.jpg?resize=200%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/natural-gas.jpg?resize=200%2C250&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/natural-gas.jpg?resize=120%2C150&amp;ssl=1 120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/natural-gas.jpg?w=201&amp;ssl=1 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court was moved Wednesday seeking quashing of the government&#8217;s recent decision hiking natural gas prices from April 2014 and direction to the government to cancel the production-sharing contract with Reliance Industries and NIKO Resources related to the Krishna-Godavari basin block.<\/p>\n<p>The public interest litigation, filed by NGO Common Cause, former cabinet secretary T.S.R. Subramanian, former naval chief L. Ramdas and former secretary Ramaswamy R. Iyer, also sought a court-monitored investigation into the alleged collusion between politicians and corporates.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioners sought levying of penalty on the involved corporates for their persistence failure in adhering to their commitments, deliberate underproduction and allegedly malafide conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Seeking the quashing of the recent decision to increase the gas prices from $4.2 mmbtu to $8.4 mmbtu, the petition said new gas prices should be applicable only for fresh auctions for unexplored greenfield areas and not to existing discoveries.<\/p>\n<p>The petition said the action of the government showed that instead of acting as custodian and trustee of natural resources belonging to people, &#8220;it has played a fraud on the people and the constitution&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>(Source:IANS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court was moved Wednesday seeking quashing of the government&#8217;s recent decision hiking natural gas prices from April 2014 and direction to the government to cancel the production-sharing contract with Reliance Industries and NIKO Resources related to the Krishna-Godavari basin block. 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