Shimla, Aug. 4 -- Himachal Pradesh High Court has come down heavily on the Special Secretary (Power), Arindam Chaudhary, for willfully disobeying a previous court order in the matter of M/s Kundlas Loh Udyog vs. Arindam Chaudhary (COPC No. 600 of 2025).
Justice Sandeep Sharma, presiding over the contempt petition, observed that the respondent had attempted to "overreach the judgment" and failed to comply with the court's specific direction to issue a notification granting industrial tariff incentives as per Clause 16(A) of the 2019 Industrial Policy.
In its earlier judgment, the Division Bench of the High Court had ordered the Department of MPP & Power to issue an enabling notification granting power tariff incentives to the petitioner, ...