Gas supply: Suspension to five stations stayed

LHC restrained SNGPL from disconnecting gas supply to five CNG stations till March 19.

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday restrained Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) from disconnecting gas supply to five CNG stations till March 19. Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah also ordered that the five new writ petitions be clubbed with 22 similar petitions. The court had stayed the suspension of gas supply to the 22 stations last week. The five petitioners submitted that the SNGPL had told them at the time of obtaining the connections that gas supply would be cut off from December to February. But, they said, the SNGPL now planned to suspend the supply from March to May to ensure supply to fertiliser manufacturers, “discriminating” against them.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 13^th, 2012.