Chandigarh, July 12 -- Former Haryana finance minister Sampat Singh on Saturday alleged that the Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission's (HERC) decision to constitute a three-member expert committee to examine the parallel electricity distribution licence application of Eleven Power amounted to abdication of its statutory authority.

In a statement, Singh described the panel as an outsourced entity constituted through an opaque process and questioned the manner in which its members were selected.

Referring to a Hindustan Times report of July 11, Singh said the circumstances surrounding the committee raised concerns about institutional transparency. "The commission admits it was simply in receipt of profiles of the three members. Who ...