2026 Supreme(SC) 510
DIPANKAR DATTA, SATISH CHANDRA SHARMA
Indian Railways – Appellant
Versus
West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Limited – Respondent
Advocates appeared:
For the Appellant(s) : Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, Ld. A.S.G. Mr. S.D.Sanjay, Ld. A.S.G. Mr. Gaurang Bhushan, Adv. Mr. Madhav Sinhal, Adv. Mrs. Sansriti Pathak, Adv. Mrs. Bani Dikshit, Adv. Mr. Bhuvan Kapur, Adv. Mr. Siddharth V.thakur, Adv. Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR
For the Respondent(s):Mr. Sajan Poovayya, Sr. Adv. Ms. Ishita Jain, AOR Mr. Anand Kumar Shrivastava, Adv. Ms. Shruti Kanodia, Adv. Mr. Shivam Sinha, Adv. Mr. Ravi Nair, Adv. Mr. Mudassir, Adv. Mr. Palash Maheshwari, Adv. Mr. Parag Tripathi, Sr. Adv. Ms. Suparna Srivastava, Adv. Ms. Surbhi Gupta, Adv. Mr. Hitakshi Jain, Adv. Ms. Bhairavi, Adv. Mr. S. K. Verma, AOR Mr. G Umapathy, Sr. Adv. Mr. Aditya Singh-1, AOR Ms. Priyanka Singh, Adv. Mr. C.S. Vaidyanathan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Aniket Prasoon, Adv. Mr. Pratiksha Chaturvedi, Adv. Mr. Vinit Kumar, Adv. Mr. Aman Sheikh, Adv. Mr. Adarsh Kumar Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Shubham Singh, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Mittal, AOR Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ashok Kumar Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Sarthak Pathak, Adv. Mr. Umesh Kumar Shukla, Adv. Mrs. Srabani Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. Shekhar Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Gajendra Singh Negi, Adv. Mr. Md Shah Minhajuddin, Adv. Mr. Md Adil Khan, Adv. Mr. Subhro Prokas Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Nitin Saluja, AOR Mr. Anup Kumar, AOR Mrs. Neha Jaiswal, Adv. Ms. Pragya Choudhary, Adv. Ms. Achint Priya, Adv. Mr. Shivam Kumar, Adv. Ms. Arshi, Adv. Mr. Jaideep Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sabarish Subramanian, AOR Mr. S.vallinayagam, Adv. Mr. Veshal Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Riddhi Bose, Adv. Ms. Racheeta Chawla, Adv. Ms. Rishi Agarwal, Adv. Ms. Sampriti Baksi, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Unnikrishnan, Adv. Ms. Mandakini Ghosh, AOR Mr. Vikas Upadhyay, AOR Ms. Ankita Kashyap, Adv. Mr. Ranveer Singh, Adv. Mr. Shiva Narang, Adv. Ms. Sunieta Ojha, AOR Mr. Anand K Ganesan, Adv. Mr. Nikunj Dayal, AOR Mr. Amal Nair, Adv. Ms. Devyani Prasad, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Kumar Mahapatra, Adv. Ms. Mrinmayee Sahu, AOR Mr. Sugam Kumar Jha, Adv. Mr. Sreedas Kp, Adv. Ms. Amruta Padhi, Adv. Mr. Pitambar Acharya, Advocate General Mr. Srisatya Mohanty, AOR Ms. Sakshi Mittal, Adv. Mr. G. Umapathy, Sr. Adv. Mr. Rutwik Panda, AOR Ms. Nikhar Berry, Adv. Ms. Anshu Malik, Adv. Mr. Maninder Singh, Sr. Adv. Mr. Prabhas Bajaj, AOR Mr. Rithvik Mathur, Adv. Mr. Rishabh Yadav, Adv. Mr. Dhananjaya Mishra, AOR Mr. Bharadwaj S., AOR Ms. Pratiti Rungta, Adv. Mr. Sumit Pragal, Adv. Mr. Prashant Singh, Adv. Mr. Shivankur Shukla, Adv. Ms. Amita Singh Kalkal, AOR Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Mr. Lokesh Sinhal, Sr. A.A.G. Mr. Shekhar Raj Sharma, A.A.G. Mr. Samar Vijay Singh, AOR Mr. Madhav Sinhal, Adv. Ms. Nidhi Narwal, Adv. Ms. Srishti Jain, Adv. Mr. Nikunj Gupta, Adv. Mr. Sarthak Arya, Adv. Mr. Amit Ojha, Adv. Mr. Aman Dev Sharma, Adv. Ms. Sabarni Som, Adv. Mr. Gaj Singh, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Kumar, Adv. Mr. Nived Veerapaneni, Adv. Ms. Shubham Mudgil, Adv. M/s Trilegal Advocates On Record, AOR Mr. K. Parameshwar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Udit Gupta, Adv. Mr. Vyom Chaturvedi, Adv. Ms. Sneha Singh, Adv. Ms. Pragya Gupta, Adv. Ms. Prachi Gupta, Adv. Ms. Veda Singh, Adv. Mr. Prasad Hegde, Adv. M/S. Udit Kishan And Associates, AOR
JUDGMENT :
SATISH CHANDRA SHARMA, J.
1. This is a batch of statutory Appeals under Section 125 of the Electricity Act, 2003 (for short, hereinafter referred to as “The Electricity Act”) assailing the common judgment and order dated 12.02.2024 passed by the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity at New Delhi, (“APTEL”), in Appeal Nos. 276/2015, 320/2018, 114/2020, 73/2021, 213/2021, 170/2019, 343/2019 and 133/2020.
2. By the said judgment, APTEL has set aside the Order dated 05.11.2015 passed by the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (“CERC”) in Petition No. 197/MP/2015 along with connected appeals arising from Orders passed by other State Electricity Regulatory Commissions (“SERCs”).
3. The proceedings before APTEL were contested by multiple Distribution Companies (DISCOMS) and SERCs, including the West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd. (WBSEDCL), Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC), Kerala State Electricity Regulatory Commission (KSERC), Madhya Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (MPERC), Rajasthan Electricity Regulatory Commission (RERC), Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC), Haryana Electricity Regulation Commission (HERC), Punja
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