The KESC had sent notices to Siraj Kassam Teli, former president of the KCCI and leader of the Businessman Group, and Mian Abrar Ahmad, sitting President of the KCC. - File photo

KARACHI: The Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), through its legal attorneys, on Friday asked the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation management to withdraw show-cause notices issued by it against its former and sitting presidents.

Rejecting the show-cause notices issued by the power utility, the KCCI said that if notices were not withdrawn, 17,000 members of the chamber reserve the right to institute legal proceedings for recovering damages to the tune of Rs50 billion.

The KESC had sent notices to Siraj Kassam Teli, former president of the KCCI and leader of the Businessman Group, and Mian Abrar Ahmad, sitting President of the KCCI, and in response to the show-cause notices, the counsel for the KCCI maintained that respondents did not indulge in vilification campaign and claimed that the KESC’s notice was indicator of its attempt to pressure, threaten and coerce them into remaining silent.

The KCCI’s letter to the President and the Prime Minister suggesting solution to the energy crisis by allowing the industry to generate its own power to ease pressure on the power utility, cannot be termed misleading or defamatory, it said.

It maintained that the KESC is a public utility and cannot escape publicscrutiny.