<h1>Centre appeal over USD 3.8 billion recovery from Reliance Industries held maintainable for merits hearing.</h1> The High Court held the Centre's appeal challenging dismissal of its 2019 enforcement petition for a USD 3.8 billion Final Partial Award maintainable, rejecting defendants' preliminary objection and directing the appeal to be heard on merits; the single judge had earlier deemed execution premature but granted liberty to seek execution at an appropriate stage arising from disputes under Production Sharing Contracts concerning profit sharing and royalties.