A day after the Election Commission asked the government to delay the doubling of natural gas prices until the completion of elections, Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily said top law officers will examine the order before the next course of action is decided.
"We are examining it. And because the matter is also in the Supreme Court of India, we would like our Solicitor General or Attorney General to examine it. I don't want to comment further on the issue," he told the news agency in Bangalore on Tuesday.
Deferring the new price regime by a few months will not have a material bearing on 85 per cent of the gas produced in the country.