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Justice G Jayachandran, on dismissing the writ petition filed by S. P. Sreenivas, said, “This court finds that the alleged illegality of entering into contract with certain generators is ill-conceived. The fixation of purchase price @ Rs.7.01 per unit cannot be presumed to be fixed with an ulterior motive. Even if it is so, it could be challenged before the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL).”

The judge further held, “If some ineligible persons were entertained and awarded contract of power purchase as alleged by the petitioner, it is for the other competitors who have participated in the tender and lost the tender to challenge the same.”

The petitioner had alleged that the then Minister for Electricity with the mala fide intention to favour the solar power generators had purchased power @ Rs.7.01 instead of Rs.5.01 per unit, the rate which was purchased by the adjacent States.