Bses Rajdhani Power Ltd. v. Des Raj Madan & Anr.
Case brief
What is this about?
BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd and BSES Yamuna Power Ltd appealed (LPA 297/2024 to LPA 306/2024, with associated CM APPLs., High Court of Delhi, order dated 12.12.2025) against portions of learned Single Judge judgments. The Division Bench (Dinesh Mehta and Vimal Kumar Yadav, JJ.) set aside Para 69 and all corresponding parts qua issue no. 1, by which the Single Judge had treated the electricity distribution companies as a 'State' within Article 12 of the Constitution of India and amenable to writ jurisdiction, the point having been neither raised nor argued below. The maintainability of writ petitions against electricity distribution companies was expressly left open for future writ petitions; the appeals and interlocutory applications were disposed of. Caution: this order does not decide whether such companies are amenable to writ jurisdiction — it preserves the question as open.