Delhi High Court - Orders
Mahanagar Gas Limited vs Petroleum And Natural Gas Regulatory ... on 17 April, 2025
Author: Tushar Rao Gedela
Bench: Tushar Rao Gedela
$~29 to 37 & 39 to 44
* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
+ W.P.(C) 8902/2024, CM APPL. 36327/2024, CM APPL. 36328/2024
& CM APPL. 13576/2025
MAHANAGAR GAS LIMITED .....Petitioner
Through: Mr. Parag Tripathi, Sr. Advocate with
Mr. Saurav Agrawal, Mr. Trinath
Tadakamalla, Ms. Utsha Dasgupta,
Ms. Nisha Bhatia and Mr. Anshuman
Chowdhary, Advocates.
versus
PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS REGULATORY BOARD
AND ANR. .....Respondents
Through: Mr. Raghavendra P. Shankar, ASG
with Mr. Utkarsh Mishra, Ms. Pallavi
Mishra, Mr. Neelabh Bisht, Mr.
Suyash Gaur and Ms. Sanskriti
Bhardwaj, Advocates for R-1.
Mr. Rakesh Kumar, CGSC with Mr.
Vidansh Anand, GP for UOI.
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+ W.P.(C) 10060/2024, CM APPL. 41106/2024 & CM APPL.
13574/2025
INDRAPRASTHA GAS LIMITED .....Petitioner
Through: Mr. Saurav Agrawal and Mr.
Anshuman Chowdhary, Advocates.
versus
PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS REGULATORY BOARD &
ANR. .....Respondents
Through: Mr. Raghavendra P. Shankar, ASG
with Mr. Utkarsh Mishra, Ms. Pallavi
Mishra, Mr. Neelabh Bisht, Mr.
Suyash Gaur and Ms. Sanskriti
Bhardwaj, Advocates for R-1.Mr. Mr.
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Amit Acharya, GP for UOI.
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+ W.P.(C) 15834/2024, CM APPL. 66461/2024, CM APPL. 66462/2024
& CM APPL. 13446/2025
GODAVARI GAS PVT LTD .....Petitioner
Through: Mr. Anshuman Chowdhary,
Advocate.
versus
PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS REGULATORY BOARD
.....Respondent
Through: Mr. Raghavendra P. Shankar, ASG
with Mr. Utkarsh Mishra, Ms. Pallavi
Mishra, Mr. Neelabh Bisht, Mr.
Suyash Gaur and Ms. Sanskriti
Bhardwaj, Advocates for R-1.
32
+ W.P.(C) 15835/2024, CM APPL. 66463/2024, CM APPL. 66464/2024
& CM APPL. 13566/2025
GAIL GAS LIMITED .....Petitioner
Through: Mr. Anshuman Chowdhary,
Advocate.
versus
PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS REGULATORY BOARD
.....Respondent
Through: Mr. Raghavendra P. Shankar, ASG
with Mr. Utkarsh Mishra, Ms. Pallavi
Mishra, Mr. Neelabh Bisht, Mr.
Suyash Gaur and Ms. Sanskriti
Bhardwaj, Advocates for R-1.
33
+ W.P.(C) 15836/2024, CM APPL. 66466/2024, CM APPL. 66467/2024
& CM APPL. 13565/2025
RAJASTHAN STATE GAS LIMITED .....Petitioner
Through: Mr. Anshuman Chowdhary,
Advocate.
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versus
PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS REGULATORY BOARD
.....Respondent
Through: Mr. Raghavendra P. Shankar, ASG
with Mr. Utkarsh Mishra, Ms. Pallavi
Mishra, Mr. Neelabh Bisht, Mr.
Suyash Gaur and Ms. Sanskriti
Bhardwaj, Advocates for R-1.
34
+ W.P.(C) 15837/2024, CM APPL. 66468/2024, CM APPL. 66469/2024
& CM APPL. 13575/2025
GREEN GAS LIMITED .....Petitioner
Through: Mr. Anshuman Chowdhary,
Advocate.
versus
PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS REGULATORY BOARD
.....Respondent
Through: Mr. Raghavendra P. Shankar, ASG
with Mr. Utkarsh Mishra, Ms. Pallavi
Mishra, Mr. Neelabh Bisht, Mr.
Suyash Gaur and Ms. Sanskriti
Bhardwaj, Advocates for R-1.
35
+ W.P.(C) 15923/2024, CM APPL. 66816/2024, CM APPL. 66817/2024
& CM APPL. 13449/2025
HARIDWAR NATURAL GAS PVT LTD .....Petitioner
Through: Mr. Anshuman Chowdhary,
Advocate.
versus
PETROLEUM AND NATURAL BOARD .....Respondent
Through: Mr. Raghavendra P. Shankar, ASG
with Mr. Utkarsh Mishra, Ms. Pallavi
Mishra, Mr. Neelabh Bisht, Mr.
Suyash Gaur and Ms. Sanskriti
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Bhardwaj, Advocates for R-1.
36
+ W.P.(C) 15938/2024, CM APPL. 67004/2024, CM APPL. 67005/2024
& CM APPL. 13445/2025
GOA NATURAL GAS PVT LTD .....Petitioner
Through: Mr. Anshuman Chowdhary,
Advocate.
versus
PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS REGULATORY BOARD
.....Respondent
Through: Mr. Raghavendra P. Shankar, ASG
with Mr. Utkarsh Mishra, Ms. Pallavi
Mishra, Mr. Neelabh Bisht, Mr.
Suyash Gaur and Ms. Sanskriti
Bhardwaj, Advocates for R-1.
37
+ W.P.(C) 8906/2024, CM APPL. 36343/2024, CM APPL. 36344/2024,
CM APPL. 36345/2024 & CM APPL. 13564/2025
GUJARAT GAS LIMITED .....Petitioner
Through: Mr. Parag Tripathi, Sr. Advocate with
Mr. Piyush Joshi, Ms. Sumiti Yadava,
Ms. Chand Chopra, Ms. Vatsala
Bhatia and Ms. Neha Bhupathiraju,
Advocates.
versus
PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS REGULATORY BOARD
THROUGH THE SECRETARY & ANR. .....Respondents
Through: Mr. Raghavendra P. Shankar, ASG
with Mr. Utkarsh Mishra, Ms. Pallavi
Mishra, Mr. Neelabh Bisht, Mr.
Suyash Gaur and Ms. Sanskriti
Bhardwaj, Advocates for R-1.
Mr. Rakesh Kumar, CGSC with Mr.
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Vidansh Anand, GP for UOI.
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+ W.P.(C) 17105/2024, CM APPL. 72501/2024, CM APPL. 72502/2024
& CM APPL.13444/2025
SABARMATI GAS LIMITED .....Petitioner
Through: Mr. Parag Tripathi, Sr. Advocate with
Mr. Piyush Joshi, Ms. Sumiti Yadava,
Ms. Vatsla Bhatia, Ms. Meghna
Sengupta, Ms. Amrita Dwivedi and
Mr. Srinivasan Ramaswamy,
Advocates.
versus
PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS REGULATORY BOARD &
ANR. .....Respondents
Through: Mr. Raghavendra P. Shankar, ASG
with Mr. Utkarsh Mishra, Ms. Pallavi
Mishra, Mr. Neelabh Bisht, Mr.
Suyash Gaur and Ms. Sanskriti
Bhardwaj, Advocates for R-1.
Ms. Rukhmini Bobde, Mr. Amlaan
Kumar, Mr. Vinayak Aren and Mr.
Jatin Dhamija, Advocates for UOI.
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+ W.P.(C) 17789/2024 & CM APPL. 75755/2024
CENTRAL U.P GAS LIMITED .....Petitioner
Through: Mr. Nishant Gautam, CGSC with Mr.
Vardhman Kaushik, Mr. Vipul Verma
and Mr. Prithviraj Dey, Advocates for
R-1.
versus
PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS REGULATORY BOARD &
ANR. .....Respondents
Through: Mr. Raghavendra P. Shankar, ASG
with Mr. Utkarsh Mishra, Ms. Pallavi
Mishra, Mr. Neelabh Bisht, Mr.
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Suyash Gaur and Ms. Sanskriti
Bhardwaj, Advocates for R-1.
41
+ W.P.(C) 103/2025, CM APPL. 412/2025, CM APPL. 413/2025 & CM
APPL. 22281/2025
M/S ASSAM GAS COMPANY LIMITED .....Petitioner
Through: Ms. Molshree Bhatnagar and Mr.
Paritosh Bisen, Advocates.
versus
PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS REGULATORY BOARD &
ANR. .....Respondents
Through: Mr. Raghavendra P. Shankar, ASG
with Mr. Utkarsh Mishra, Ms. Pallavi
Mishra, Mr. Neelabh Bisht, Mr.
Suyash Gaur and Ms. Sanskriti
Bhardwaj, Advocates for R-1.
Mr. Rakesh Kumar, CGSC with Mr.
Vedansh Anand, GP for UOI.
42
+ W.P.(C) 2981/2025, CM APPL. 14110/2025 & CM APPL.
14111/2025
TRIPURA NATURAL GAS COMPANY LIMITED .....Petitioner
Through: Mr. N. L. Ganapathi and Mr. Jai
Raina, Advocates.
versus
PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS REGULATORY BOARD
.....Respondent
Through: Mr. Raghavendra P. Shankar, ASG
with Mr. Utkarsh Mishra, Ms. Pallavi
Mishra, Mr. Neelabh Bisht, Mr.
Suyash Gaur and Ms. Sanskriti
Bhardwaj, Advocates for R-1.
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+ W.P.(C) 3196/2025 & CM APPL. 14927/2025
VADODARA GAS LIMITED .....Petitioner
Through: Mr. N. L. Ganapathi and Mr. Jai
Raina, Advocates.
versus
PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS REGULATORY BOARD
.....Respondent
Through: Mr. Raghavendra P. Shankar, ASG
with Mr. Utkarsh Mishra, Ms. Pallavi
Mishra, Mr. Neelabh Bisht, Mr.
Suyash Gaur and Ms. Sanskriti
Bhardwaj, Advocates for R-1.
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+ W.P.(C) 4055/2025, CM APPL. 18889/2025- & CM APPL.
18890/2025
MAHARASHTRA NATURAL GAS LIMITED .....Petitioner
Through: Mr. Ramji Srinivasan, Sr. Advocate
with Mr. Trinath Tadakamalla, Ms.
Utsha Dasgupta, Ms. Nisha Bhatia,
Mr. Arjun Bhatia and Ms. Shefali
Munde, Advocates.
Versus
PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS REGULATORY BOARD
.....Respondent
Through: Mr. Raghavendra P. Shankar, ASG
with Mr. Utkarsh Mishra, Ms. Pallavi
Mishra, Mr. Neelabh Bisht, Mr.
Suyash Gaur and Ms. Sanskriti
Bhardwaj, Advocates for R-1.
Ms. Radhika Bishwajit Dubey, CGSC
and Ms. Lavanya Kaushik, GP with
Ms. Gurleen Kaur Waraich and Mr.
Kritarth Upadhyay, Advocates for
R-2.
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CORAM:
HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE TUSHAR RAO GEDELA
ORDER
% 17.04.2025
1. Arguments in this bunch of petitions on behalf of petitioners have commenced.
2. The interim order in terms of the statement made by learned Additional Solicitor General on the earlier occasion shall continue to operate till the next date.
3. The counter affidavit filed by the Board in W.P.(C) 8902/2024 shall be treated as counter affidavit filed in all other connected matters.
4. Rejoinder filed by the petitioner in W.P. (C) 17789/2024 be taken on record.
5. Parties are given liberty to complete pleadings before the next date of hearing.
6. List on 22.04.2025 at 02:30 PM.
DEVENDRA KUMAR UPADHYAYA, CJ TUSHAR RAO GEDELA, J APRIL 17, 2025/ DR This is a digitally signed order.
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