The Delhi High Court on Monday asked the Delhi Metro to inform it about the modalities of payment with respect to the outstanding amount due to Reliance Infrastructure’s Delhi Airport Metro Express Private Limited (DAMEPL) under the terms of the May 2017 arbitral award.
Justice V Kameswar Rao of Delhi High Court made the observation during the hearing, after Senior Advocate Maninder Singh, appearing for Delhi Metro informed the court that a meeting between the Centre, the Delhi government and other stakeholders is fixed for November 10 to discuss the matter and some proposals are expected to come out of it.
Singh further told the court that Attorney General R Venkataramani was held up in a separate engagement and the matter be deferred to November 18. The court, said that “the Judgment Debtor (DMRC) is expected to inform the court about the modalities of the payment”. The high court listed the matter for further hearing on November 18 and said the additional affidavit filed by the DMRC during the day should have been filed earlier.
Senior advocate Jaideep Gupta, representing DAMEPL, urged the court to ask the DMRC managing director to be present in court on the next date of hearing to address the issue of payment.
"They are not taking the high court's order seriously. The last hearing was on October 10 and they knew that the matter would come up on October 31. Still they have kept the meeting on November 10," he contended.
