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Gas row: SC mulls over possibility of negotiation

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New Delhi, Oct 28: In the final leg of the gas dispute hearing between the Industrial behemoths, Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and Reliance Natural Resources Ltd (RNRL), the Sumpreme Court on Tuesday, Oct 27 mulled over the possibility of a negotiation.

"There must be parameters to arrive at suitable arrangements for supply of gas," the apex court's three member bench of Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan, Justice RV Raveendran and Justice P Sathasivam noted.

"Either you negotiate or we can direct you to go for arbitration," the SC said during the hearing of dispute between the Ambani brothers over the pricing of gas from the KG basin.

In the fourth session of hearing, counsel for Reliance Industries Harish Salve resumed his arguments, He maintained that the Ambani family reorganisation pact had no bearing on his client, which was a company.

"The Reliance Industries board had no knowledge of the private agreement," he said.

As he continued his argument, Ram Jethmalani intervened on behalf of Anil Ambnai-led RNRL asserting that his client was not against the Government's gas utilisation policy, but it should be implemented prospectively and not retrospectively.

Saying that RIL will make a huge profit even if it sells gas at $2.34 per unit, as demanded by his client, Jethmalani said, "It's fraud on the nation. You (Reliance Industries) are making thousands of crores."

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Triveni 01 Nov 2009 08:11 am
As observed by the honourable Supreme court, the case essentially is about division of property between two brothers. However,the RIL and its shareholders have inadvertantly gained due to incomplete implementation of the family MoU and hence it is wrong for RIL to argue that it has nothing to do with the dispute between the brothers. Since RIL is not open to arbritation, the Supreme Court may consider giving RNRL a 40 to 50% stake in KG fields as per the spirit of the MoU. RNRL should pay proportinate Capex to RIL, after the stated Capex has been verified by independent agencies. The Government could control allocation of gas and recover its dues from both the parties proportionately. It is not right to drag this case indefinitely as the Gas needs to reach the people at the right price earliest.
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