ISLAMABAD
The Supreme Court on Friday directed the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) chairman, former and incumbent officials of WAPDA and shareholders of Genco Power, involved in the contract deal for rental power plants (RPP), to appear in court on October 26.
The court allowed them to either appear in person or through their representatives, with the assurance that they would appear in court whenever it asked them to.
A three-member Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday was conducting a suo motu hearing on a notice and pleas regarding allegations of corruption in the award of contract for RPPs and the government’s decision to increase power tariffs.
Khawaja Tariq Rahim, lawyer for the Water and Power Ministry and PEPCO, was asked to furnish details of the chief executives of RPPs, so that they may not say that they were not heard in the case. During the hearing, it was revealed that Genco, not the Pakistani government, gave guarantees to the RPPs.
One of the petitioners, PML-Q’s Parliamentary Leader in the NA Faisal Saleh Hayat, said that RPPs installed during his period were misappropriated, therefore, action should been taken in this respect.
