BHUBANESWAR: In a major relief to the State-owned Orissa Power Generation Corporation (OPGC), the Supreme Court dismissed the special leave petitions filed by BJP leader and former minister Manmohan Samal and others challenging the Orissa High Court Order on the tendering process of the Ib Thermal expansion projects. A division bench of the apex court consisting of Justices D K Jain and A R Dave while dismissing the SLP declined to interfere with the November 15, 2011 order of the High Court. Earlier, the Orissa High Court had rejected the application filed by Kailash Chandra Gupta of Dhamnagar in Bhadrak district challenging the balance of plant (BoP) tender process floated by OPGC for its third and fourth units at Banaharpali in Jharsuguda district. In its order, a division bench of the High Court said that the petitioner had not made out a prima facie case that public interest would be affected by not following the guidelines of Central Electricity Authority. “No material facts are stated or documents are produced to substantiate the plea that there would be loss of Rs 300 crore to the opposite party in not following the guidelines, the order said.
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