In a major setback to the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC), the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has stayed its (the commission's) resolution to stop recording its hearings and to destroy existing recordings. On Friday, the HC acted on a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by activist Anil Wadpalliwar through his counsel Shreerang Bhandarkar.

All three members of the commission – chairman Anand Kulkarni, IM Bohari and Mukesh Khullar – on September 4 had unanimously passed a resolution to stop recording the public hearings and to destroy the archives.