Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 838 · Decided 14 July 2025
Torrent Power Limited v. U.P. Electricity Regulatory Commission & Ors
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 838 · [2025] 7 S.C.R. 693
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 23514/2017
- Decided
- 14 July 2025
- Bench
- J.B. PARDIWALA, R MAHADEVAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Electricity Act Section 2(15), 128, 16, 18, 19, 20
Headnote
i) Whether any individual can invoke the jurisdiction of a State Electricity Regulatory Commissions (ERC) on the plea of public interest. In other words, whether an ERC has the jurisdiction to consider matters in public interest; ii) Whether the Act, 2003 State ERCs to consider and adjudicate the efficacy of a distribution franchisee agreement entered between a distribution licensee and a distribution franchisee. In other words, whether ERCs have the jurisdiction to review the functioning of a distribution licensee to supply the electricity through
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