A plea challenging the Union government’s ethanol blending programme was mentioned before the Supreme Court, with the petitioner requesting that it be listed alongside a similar matter that had already been brought to the Court’s notice.
During the mentioning, counsel informed the Bench of Justices M M Sundresh and Sheel Nagu that the petition challenges the Centre’s ethanol blending programme and pointed out that a similar special leave petition (SLP) had been mentioned by Attorney General R Venkatramani before the Court a day earlier.
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“I am just requesting my matter also not be listed, not today, of course, but as early as possible. I am also challenging the same,” counsel submitted.
Responding to the request, the Bench observed, “You be there then, let us see. You will be there automatically.”
The mentioning, which counsel informed the court about, came on Monday. In that mentioning, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a plea by an oil marketing company challenging a Karnataka High Court order directing the reopening of the ethanol allocation process for the 2025–26 supply year. Appearing in that matter, Attorney General R. Venkataramani argued that reopening the allocation process after its implementation would destabilise the Centre’s national policy aimed at achieving 20% ethanol blending in petrol, and urged the Court to stay the High Court’s directions.