2002 (8) TMI 561

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..... - This appeal is directed against the order of the learned single judge dated January 9, 1995. The facts giving rise to the appeal are as follows : In the year 1985, the appellant, National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd. ('NTPC Ltd.') awarded the contract for laying of transmission line for Korba Bhilai-II to respondent No. 1, Hind Galvanizing and Engineering Co. Ltd. ('the HGEC Ltd.'). On Ma....

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....der the Ordinance and the Act, the power transmission systems were vested in the Central Government and after they were so vested, the power transmission systems by a legal fiction were deemed to have been transferred and vested in the Power Grid Corporation of India ("the PGCI"). After the Act came into force, the learned single judge by order dated January 9, 1995, directed the Power Grid Cor....

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....as not deleted from the array of parties, has filed the instant appeal. We do not see any reason to interfere with the order passed by the learned single judge. By the impugned order the learned company judge has not held the appellant to be responsible for the payment of the aforesaid amount to the PGCI nor has any financial liability been foisted on it. The question whether the appellant is l....