NEW DELHI , APR 11,
The Supreme Court on Thursday closed an appeal by the Centre for Indian Trade Union in 1997 alleging corruption and paybacks involving politicians and bureaucrats in the setting up Enron-promoted Dabhol power plant in the State.
Two decades after the case was filed in the apex court, a Bench led by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, in a judgment, laid to rest the special leave petition, saying the serious accusations leveled against politicians and bureaucrats need to be taken to its logical conclusion.
The Maharashtra government had in February urged the court to end the proceedings which has been pending for the past several years.
The Madhav Godbole high-powered committee, which was formed to review the 2,184 MW, $3 billion Dabhol power project, had recommended the constitution of a judicial commission into the allegations of corruption.
The Committee had said that the deal showed there was an utter failure of governance which was relevant in almost every step of the decision-making process relating to the Dabhol project.
The Committee was critical of former Maharashtra Chief Minister Sharad Pawar, the BJP-led Union government which had a brief tenure of 13 days in 1996, and the Shiv Sena-BJP combine which came to power in Maharashtra.
