{"id":33467,"date":"2014-05-27T11:26:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T05:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=33467"},"modified":"2014-05-27T11:26:45","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T05:56:45","slug":"relief-discoms-hc-defers-hearing-cag-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/relief-discoms-hc-defers-hearing-cag-audit","title":{"rendered":"No relief for discoms; HC defers hearing on CAG audit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/relief-discoms-hc-defers-hearing-cag-audit\/cag\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33468\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"33468\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/relief-discoms-hc-defers-hearing-cag-audit\/cag\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/CAG.jpg?fit=248%2C186&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"248,186\" 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=\"CAG\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/CAG.jpg?fit=248%2C186&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-33468 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/CAG.jpg?resize=248%2C186&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"CAG\" width=\"248\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/CAG.jpg?w=248&amp;ssl=1 248w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/CAG.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a>The Delhi High Court today deferred the hearing on the plea by three private discoms to stay the city government&#8217;s decision asking the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) to audit their accounts.<\/p>\n<p>A bench comprising Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice R S Endlaw fixed July 22 as the next date of hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The bench was hearing a batch of petitions, including three appeals filed by TPDDL and Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group firms, BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd and BSES Yamuna Power Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>The discoms moved the larger bench of the court against its single judge&#8217;s order of January 24 refusing to stall their CAG audit and asking them to &#8220;fully cooperate with the Comptroller and Auditor General in the audit process&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Besides these pleas, the court is also hearing a PIL filed by NGO United RWAs Joint Action, seeking CAG audit of the discoms&#8217; accounts.<\/p>\n<p>The single judge bench, which did not stay the CAG audit, however, had said that the report of the audit will not be released without the court&#8217;s permission.<\/p>\n<p>Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the NGO, had said that a DERC audit of a discom had revealed massive fudging of accounts and the NGO had also sought action against those involved.<\/p>\n<p>The three private firms came into being in 2002 when the then Delhi government decided to privatise power distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Delhi discoms are a 51:49 per cent joint venture between the private companies and the Delhi government.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court today deferred the hearing on the plea by three private discoms to stay the city government&#8217;s decision asking the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) to audit their accounts. 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