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The hearing in the SC was scheduled after the L-G sent a reminder to Kejriwal on Monday evening over swearing in the power regulator chief on Tusday morning.
The Supreme Court on Monday deferred the oath-taking ceremony of DERC chairperson-designate Justice (retd) Umesh Kumar and sought responses from the Centre and the office of the Lieutenant Governor on a plea of the Delhi government challenging the law governing such an appointment.
The Supreme Court Tuesday ordered deferment of the oath taking of Justice (retd) Umesh Kumar as the chairperson of the DERC and said it will examine the constitutional validity of a provision of the Centre's recent ordinance governing appointments such as that of the chief of the national capital's electricity regulatory authority.
The Supreme Court on Monday deferred the oath taking ceremony of DERC chairperson-designate Justice (retd) Umesh Kumar and sought responses from the Centre and the office of the Lieutenant Governor on a plea of the Delhi government challenging the law governing such an appointment.
The DERC chairperson post has been vacant since January and on May 19, the Supreme Court had directed the L-G to process the name forwarded by Delhi government within two weeks | Latest News India