{"id":15418,"date":"2017-08-24T12:45:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T07:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15418"},"modified":"2017-08-24T12:45:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T07:45:28","slug":"shc-endorses-verdict-rejecting-hike-in-gas-tariff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15418","title":{"rendered":"SHC endorses verdict rejecting hike in gas tariff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KARACHI, Aug 24 (TNS):<\/strong> Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday rejected Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) appeal against a single bench verdict overturning the gas utility decision to hike gas tariff for industries.<\/p>\n<p>The court while upholding the single-member bench decision ruled that the gas utility decision was against the set principles of Council of Common Interests and Supreme Court of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The gas utility raised gas tariff for industrial consumers in fiscal year 2014-15. A petition was filed in Sindh High Court against the decision.<\/p>\n<p>A single member bench of the high court after hearing the petition declared the SSGC decision to raise tariff as illegal.<\/p>\n<p>The SSGC filed intra-court appeal (ICA) in SHC against the single bench decision, which was also rejected by a division bench of the court.<\/p>\n<p>The court observed that the decision to raise tariff was taken against the set principles and procedures laid down by CCI, Supreme Court and even without consulting provinces.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI, Aug 24 (TNS): Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday rejected Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) appeal against a single bench verdict overturning the gas utility decision to hike gas tariff for industries. The court while upholding the single-member bench decision ruled that the gas utility decision was against the set principles of Council of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,23],"tags":[145,589],"class_list":["post-15418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-karachi","category-national","tag-karachi","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15419,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15418\/revisions\/15419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}