Denying allegations that it compromised transparency by stopping video recording of public hearings, the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) said, on Monday, that the practice was redundant as everything that happens at hearings is also recorded in written orders.

MERC's legal member and former judge Iqbal Bohari said the commission had followed the rules in taking a unanimous decision of doing away with video recording. He was speaking at an event at Mumbai Press Club on Monday.