1. The appellant failed to satisfy the respondent, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (hereinafter referred to variously as, ‘CERC’ or ‘Central Commission’) with regard to its claim for declaration of change in law on account of two events viz. cancellation of the coal blocks by Hon’ble Supreme Court by its Orders dated 25.08.2014 and 24.09.2014 in WP Crl No. 120 of 2012 Manohar Lal Sharma v The Principal Secretary & ors. and National Coal Distribution Policy 2013 which had reduced the assured quantum of coal for supply to the appellant under the tapering linkage granted to it. The Order dated 08.10.2018 of the Central Commission passed in Petition no. 179/MP/2016 is assailed, inter alia, on the basis of subsequent decision of this tribunal rendered on 21.12.2018 in Appeal no. 193 of 2017 in GMR Kamalanga Energy Limited v Central Electricity Regulatory Commission & ors. and judgment dated 31.08.2020 of Hon’ble Supreme Court in Jaipur Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited v Adani Power Rajasthan Limited in Civil Appeal no. 8625-8626 of 2019 as indeed the ruling reported as Energy Watchdog v Central Electricity Regulatory & ors. (2017) 14 SCC 80.
