Gas row: RNRL opposes govt stand on RIL in SC

Last Updated: Thursday, December 03, 2009, 19:20

New Delhi: Anil Ambani-led RNRL today opposed the Government stand in the Supreme Court on the gas row with the Mukesh Ambani's RIL, accusing it of deliberately causing "confusion" and hurting the interests of public sector NTPC.

Government's stand in its affidavit that the arrangement for the supply and pricing of gas for NTPC cannot be equated with a private agreement between RIL and RNRL was based on the interpretation of the secondary source of information and cannot be accepted, RNRL counsel Ram Jethmalani said.

However, Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium said Government was only concerned with public interest and was not interfering in the battle between the Ambani brothers and they have to resolve their dispute by themselves.

The Government stand was in response to RNRL's contention that it was entitled to receive the gas at USD 2.34 per unit from RIL which had entered into an arrangement for supplying gas to NTPC at that rate.

"The Government affidavit is not even worth the paper on which it is written on. Affidavits can't be based on interpretation of records," Jethmalani said before a Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan.

PTI

First Published: Thursday, December 03, 2009, 19:20