Bombay HC seeks Centre’s reply to plea alleging LPG exports prioritised despite domestic shortage
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The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court on Thursday sought responses from the Union government and a private firm on a petition by six liquefied petroleum gas distributors seeking an increase in the supply of domestic cooking gas cylinders, Bar and Bench reported.
A division bench of Justices Anil S Kilor and Raj D Wakode said that the matter was serious and of grave importance.
The petitioners alleged that exports were being prioritised over domestic supply despite the shortage of LPG caused by the energy crisis sparked by the conflict in West Asia. They claimed that Nagpur-based firm Confidence Petroleum India Limited had failed to increase the supply of household LPG cylinders even though the Union government had ordered that domestic distribution be prioritised, PTI reported.
The petitioners said they were directly facing the consequences of a “severely disrupted” LPG supply chain in Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region.
“This is causing widespread hardship to consumers across the country, particularly in the state of Maharashtra and the Vidarbha region,” Bar and Bench quoted the petition as saying.
The petitioners cited a March 9 order of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas that directed all refineries and petrochemical complexes to use their entire production capacity to produce LPG, which is to be made available to public sector oil marketing companies.
The bench...