Calcutta High Court today “requested” Coal India Ltd (CIL) to put on hold till January 15 its move to
increase prices.
“Mind you,
this is not an order. We are requesting CIL that if possible, they should not
give effect to its December 30 notification in which the company increased coal
prices, till January 15,”Justice Pinaki Ghosh said.
Moloy
Bose, the lawyer appearing for Coal India, told the court that he would have to
speak to CIL authorities and prayed for time to file an affidavit stating the
company’s pricing policy.
The
division bench accepted the plea and fixed January 15 as the next hearing date.
The high
court is hearing a PIL filed by green activist Subhash Dutta alleging that CIL
was hiking prices “whimsically”.
Senior
Coal India officials could not be contacted this evening. Text messages to the
cellphones of company chairman N.C. Jha, director (finance) A.K. Sinha and
general manager (legal) S. Majumdar went unanswered.
A Coal
India official said: “A decision on the high court's request will be taken
after our chairman comes back (from Delhi) tomorrow.”
Source: Telegraph India
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