SC to hear on KCR’s plea on July 15; panel to probe power sector irregularities

New Delhi: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on July 15 a plea of BRS supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao challenging a Telangana High Court order dismissing his plea to declare as “illegal” the constitution of a commission to inquire into the alleged irregularities in the power sector during his tenure as the state’s chief minister.

The plea is listed to be heard by a bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra.

In his petition, Rao has sought to declare as “illegal” the Telangana government’s order constituting the Commission of Inquiry to conduct a judicial inquiry into the correctness and propriety of the decisions taken by his government on procurement of power from Chhattisgarh by Telangana power distribution companies and construction of the Bhadradri Thermal Power Plant at Manuguru and the Yadadri Thermal Plant at Damarcherla by TSGENCO.

ao alleges bias in the continued leadership of Justice (retd) L Narasimha Reddy as the commission’s head and claims that his direction to appear before the body was arbitrary. He argues that the ongoing commission inquiry is politically motivated by the current Congress regime to discredit his previous administration, which had resolved the state’s power crisis before June 2014.