The Islamabad High Court on Monday sought reply from the Sui Northern Gas Pipe Lines Limited managing director by May 15 on a contempt plea seeking direction to implement the court orders with regard to the opening of CNG stations three days in a week.
The court also ordered the SNGPL MD to depute a senior officer to apprise the bench about the new schedule of CNG.
A single member bench of the IHC comprising Justice Shoukat Aziz Siddiqui resumed hearing of contempt plea filed by CNG stations owners seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against the SNGPL MD for not implementing court orders and issuing new schedule of supply of gas to the CNG stations.
During the course of hearing, counsel for the petitioner Mohsin Kiani apprised the bench that the new schedule announced by the SNGPL to supply gas two days in a week was the violation of court orders.
He said the CNG stations had already been under severe financial crunch and it was impossible for them to meet their expenses and pay salaries to the staff, he added. Mohsin Kiani prayed the court to direct the SNGPL to implement the previous court orders of supply of gas in three days a week.
On February 6, the high court had ordered the SNGPL to provide the gas to CNG stations of the twin-cities, Islamabad and Rawalpindi, three days a week.