NEW DELHI: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Friday requested the Supreme Court to urgently absorb its healing petition in opposition to the highest courtroom’s 2021 order that required it to pay Delhi Airport Metro Express Private Limited (DAMEPL), a subsidiary of Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Infrastructure Limited an quantity to the song of over 8,000 crore.
Attorney normal R Venkatramani informed a bench headed by way of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud that the healing petition used to be pending since August closing 12 months and calls for to be heard urgently following a contemporary Delhi prime courtroom verdict directing the Center and Delhi govt to increase a sovereign ensure to DMRC to pay the exceptional quantity to DAMEPL as a part of an arbitral award.
“The curative petition needs to be heard immediately otherwise by March 31, DMRC will come to a halt,” the Centre’s most sensible regulation officer stated, stating that the prime courtroom has given two weeks for the Center and Delhi govt to behave upon DMRC’s request to transparent its liabilities underneath the award.
The bench, additionally comprising justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala, confident Venkatramani that the topic could be circulated a few of the different judges forming a part of the bench.
The healing petition is taken up by way of a bench headed by way of the CJI together with two senior maximum judges and the judges who authored the sooner choice, if provide.
“The topic may no longer be indexed previous as Justice Bhat used to be travelling. We will record it quickly by way of circulate,” the CJI stated.
DMRC, a 50:50 three way partnership between the Government of India (GOI) and the Delhi govt, terminated its contract with DAMEPL to perform the 22.7km Airport Metro Express line in October 2012. An arbitral tribunal, in May 2017, dominated in want of DAMEPL, which pulled out of working the Airport Express metro line over issues of safety. The award used to be upheld by way of the prime courtroom’s single-judge bench in 2018 however a two-judge bench set it apart in 2019.
When the case got here to the highest courtroom, the Supreme Court upheld the preliminary verdict awarding damages to DAMEPL in September 2021. The DMRC filed a assessment petition which used to be pushed aside by way of a two-judge bench comprising Justice L Nageswara Rao (since retired) and Justice S Ravindra Bhat in November 2021. The metro rail company has deposited an quantity of 1678.42 crore out of the overall legal responsibility of 8009.38 crore.