Attorney General Pakistan (AGP) was put on notice for February 8 by a division bench of High Court of Sindh (SHC) here on Thursday while hearing four constitution petitions filed against KESC and Nepra regarding power tariff, privatisation of KESC and inflated bills, un-announced load shedding.
The bench comprising Chief Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany and Justice Ahmed Ali M Sheikh earlier heard counsel for KESC Labour Union, Moulvi Iqbal Haider, Human Rights Commission for South Asia and Law Foundation who maintained that privatisation of the power utility badly affected the electric supply to the residents of Karachi. Besides ever increasing and inflating electricity bills, supply is becoming more and more erratic resulting in sporadic violence during previous summer.
The Nepra also unilaterally and without any powers has allowed raise in electricity tariff which is overburdening the common consumer, the counsel submitted. The bench after hearing the counsels for petitioners ordered issuance of pre-admission notice to the Attorney General Pakistan for February 8 in view of issues relating to federal government authority.
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