SC expressed concern over Sukhna Lake (file photo)
Digital Desk, New Delhi. Chief Justice Surya Kant on Wednesday expressed concern over the drying up of Chandigarh's famous Sukhna Lake due to the nexus of builder mafia and officials. He remarked, "How much more will you dry up the Sukhna Lake."
A bench of Chief Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice Vipul M. Pancholi was hearing interim applications filed in the 1995 pending PIL titled 'TN Godavarman Thirumulpad'.
When a lawyer mentioned a petition related to the lake, Justice Surya Kant commented verbally, "How much more will you dry up the Sukhna lake? Illegal constructions are taking place in Punjab with the support of political institutions and with the connivance and connivance of officials, due to which the lake is being completely ruined. All the builder mafias are working there."
Supreme Court had expressed surprise
The Supreme Court had earlier wondered why all the cases related to forests and lakes were coming directly to the Supreme Court, bypassing the High Court, and that too in the form of interim applications in the pending PIL of 1995.
Referring to an application related to the Sukhna Lake issue, the Chief Justice had said, it seems that a friendly match is going on at the behest of some private developers and others. The court heard ASG Aishwarya Bhati and amicus curiae K. appearing for the Centre. Had asked Parameshwara to tell about those local issues which the High Court itself can deal with.
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