New Delhi: The Delhi government told the high court here on Friday that the “probe has stalled” in the FIR against RIL and others, including two UPA ministers, for alleged irregularities in raising gas prices after a 2014 HC order that no coercive steps be taken in the matter.
It also submitted before Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva that the 2014 order would “enure to the benefit” of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) which was seeking quashing of the FIR on the ground that the ACB does not have the power to probe central government officials. The Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) of the city government had lodged the FIR against the company, then UPA ministers M Veerappa Moily and Murli Deora (since dead), RIL’s Chairman Mukesh Ambani, former director general of hydrocarbons V K Sibal and some others for alleged irregularities in raising price of gas from KG-6 basin. All of them had denied the allegations.
