Not privy to final SLP: ASG Parasaran

Government's counsel Mohan Parasaran has said he was left out of the details of a special leave petition filed by Petroleum Ministry in Supreme Court seeking annulment of a family MoU between Mukesh and Anil Ambani group firms on gas supply.

"I found that broadly the SLP was acceptable, but was of the view that we should confine ourselves to the grievances as an aggrieved party arising out of the judgement of the Bombay High Court.

"Even the challenge to the MoU could only be in so far as the gas sale agreement and not to the other matters... The SLP in its final shape was not seen by me," he said in a communication to the Law Ministry, presumably as a response to queries generated on the contents of the petition.

When contacted, Parasaran, Additional Solicitor General, declined to comment on the communication and the issues raised therein.

It may be recalled that Anil Ambani had on July 15 written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh alleging that the Petroleum Ministry was playing a partisan role and was siding with Mukesh Ambani group firm RIL in a commercial dispute with his group firm RNRL.

The Prime Minister's Office had subsequently forwarded the letter to the Oil Ministry for comments. The same was also believed to have been forwarded to the Law Ministry.