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NEW DELHI: The Bombay Top Courtroom has handed a restraining order in opposition to a distinguished Vikhe Patil family-owned sugar manufacturing unit in Ahmednagar, asking the promoters now not to go into the premises of an area energy plant, and to not perform any paintings/task therein.
The Vikhe Patil family members, to which the native MP Sujay Vikhe Patil belongs, controls the Padamshri Dr Vitthalrao Vikhe Patil Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana in Ahmednagar district. Pravara Renewable Power Ltd (PREL) had arrange the ability plant on the sugar manufacturing unit premises of Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana. Past due closing 12 months, the Karkhana allegedly ousted PREL, occupied the ability plant and began operating it.
PREL filed a industrial arbitration petition sooner than the Bombay Top Courtroom. The courtroom stated that the Karkhana’s forceful operation of the ability plant used to be unlawful and the events would lose religion within the gadget if their contractual rights had been taken away the usage of political energy. “Irreparable harm will probably be led to to the plant if the Karkhana continues to perform the plant,” it stated.
The courtroom stated the “the petitioner’s case is of coercive movements having taken position to oust the petitioner from the co-generation plant by means of the respondent after the prevailing petition used to be filed on 12 October 2021. The respondent the usage of its dominating place as a formidable sugar manufacturing unit.”
The courtroom additional stated that prima facie, it’s obvious that there’s a systematic industrial modus operandi at the a part of the Karkhana to take over the co-gen plant. At the beginning, by means of allowing PREL to arrange the co-gen plant for which the PREL incurred considerable expenditure of Rs 274 crore by means of borrowing budget totally to the information of the Karkhana, and thereafter by means of now not supplying the agreed quantity of bagasse and biogas, the elemental raw-material for era of energy and steam, thereby depriving PREL of an ordinary functioning of the plant to recoup its investments and earn earnings.
The courtroom additionally made hostile remarks concerning the dismantling of the biogas pipeline and the usage of it for the captive era facility, which used to be a transparent indication that there used to be no purpose to provide biogas thereby crippling PREL.
