Jindal Power Ltd will retain control of its coal washery and related plant facilities near two coal mines in Chhattisgarh, which Coal India Ltd (CIL) was trying to take over, Delhi High Court ordered on Thursday.
“You can’t get that,” a bench of justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva told CIL, which said it needed the washery to clean the coal mined from the two mines - Gare Palma IV/2 and IV/3 - of which it has been made the custodian by the court.
The court said the washery and the other plant facilities which CIL wanted to takeover were excluded from auction as per the tender document, and thus the PSU cannot have it.
The court also issued notice to CIL and the Coal Ministry seeking their responses on Jindal Power
Ltd’s (JPL) plea by May 7 the next date of hearing.
“Meanwhile, the operation of communication dated April 6, 2014, and similar communications (directing JPL to hand over the washery and plant facilities) shall not operate. In the meanwhile, petitioner (JPL) will retain control over washery ... as these were excluded from auction as is evident (from tender document),” it said.
“You can’t get that,” a bench of justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva told CIL, which said it needed the washery to clean the coal mined from the two mines - Gare Palma IV/2 and IV/3 - of which it has been made the custodian by the court.
The court said the washery and the other plant facilities which CIL wanted to takeover were excluded from auction as per the tender document, and thus the PSU cannot have it.
The court also issued notice to CIL and the Coal Ministry seeking their responses on Jindal Power
Ltd’s (JPL) plea by May 7 the next date of hearing.
“Meanwhile, the operation of communication dated April 6, 2014, and similar communications (directing JPL to hand over the washery and plant facilities) shall not operate. In the meanwhile, petitioner (JPL) will retain control over washery ... as these were excluded from auction as is evident (from tender document),” it said.