Govt in tight spot over RIL-NTPC gas tussle

The suspense over Reliance Industries' gas supply deal from its KG basin fields with NTPC continues with the government counsel defending his stand in the court that no formal agreement between the two was ever signed. The government's legal counsel, TS Doabia, wants the Petroleum Ministry to stick to a statement made last week in court where it claimed that Reliance Industries and NTPC never had an agreement on the price at which gas from KGD6 should be sold to NTPC.