SC to think about listening to PIL in search of declaration of Ram Sethu as nationwide heritage monument
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Thursday agreed to record for listening to a PIL filed by former Rajya Sabha lawmaker Subramanian Swamy in search of a course to the Centre to declare the Ram Sethu as a nationwide heritage monument.
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha took be aware of the submissions of the BJP chief that to this point no choice has been taken on the difficulty and therefore, the PIL be listed for listening to now. We will record it after the Constitution bench issues recover from, the CJI mentioned.
A five-judge structure bench headed by the CJI is seized of varied issues, together with the Delhi-Centre row over management of providers within the nationwide capital.
The prime court docket, earlier on January 19, was informed by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta that the Centre was trying into the difficulty pertaining to declaring the Ram Sethu as a nationwide heritage monument.
The court docket had requested the Centre to take a choice on the difficulty and granted Swamy the freedom to maneuver earlier than it once more if he’s dissatisfied and disposed of his interim software on the difficulty.
Learned Solicitor General states {that a} course of is at present underway within the Ministry of Culture. He states that the petitioner (Swamy) could submit extra communication if he could so want, the bench had mentioned.
I don’t wish to meet anyone. We are in the identical celebration, it was there in our manifesto. Let them determine in six weeks or no matter, Swamy had mentioned. I’ll come once more, the BJP chief had mentioned.
Swamy had mentioned that in 2019, the then Culture Minister Prahlad Patel had referred to as a gathering on the difficulty and had made a advice for declaring the Ram Sethu as a nationwide heritage monument.
The concern is that they should say– sure’ or no’, he had mentioned. The regulation officer had mentioned that the federal government was trying into it.
Prior to this, the highest court docket had mentioned it might take up the plea of Swamy within the second week of February.
Ram Sethu, also referred to as Adam’s bridge, is a series of limestone shoals between Pamban Island, off the south-eastern coast of Tamil Nadu, and Mannar Island, off the north-western coast of Sri Lanka.
The BJP chief had submitted that he had already gained the primary spherical of the litigation by which the Centre accepted the existence of Ram Sethu.
Swamy had raised the difficulty of declaring the Ram Sethu a nationwide monument in his PIL towards the controversial Sethusamudram Ship Channel undertaking, initiated by the UPA-I authorities.
The matter reached the apex court docket, which in 2007 stayed work for the undertaking on the Ram Sethu.
The Centre later mentioned it had thought-about the “socio-economic disadvantages” of the undertaking and was keen to discover one other path to the transport channel undertaking with out damaging the Ram Sethu.
“That the Government of India intends to explore an alternative to the earlier alignment of the Sethusamudram Ship Channel project without affecting/damaging the Adam’s Bridge/Ram Sethu in the interest of the nation,” the affidavit filed by the ministry had mentioned.
The court docket then requested the federal government to file a recent affidavit.
The Sethusamudram transport channel undertaking has been dealing with protests from some political events, environmentalists and sure Hindu non secular teams.
Under the undertaking, an 83 km water channel was to be created, linking Mannar with Palk Strait, by in depth dredging and elimination of limestone shoals.
On November 13, 2019, the apex court docket had granted the Centre six weeks to make clear its stand on the Ram Sethu.
It had additionally granted Swamy liberty to method the court docket if the response of the Centre was not filed.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Thursday agreed to record for listening to a PIL filed by former Rajya Sabha lawmaker Subramanian Swamy in search of a course to the Centre to declare the Ram Sethu as a nationwide heritage monument.
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha took be aware of the submissions of the BJP chief that to this point no choice has been taken on the difficulty and therefore, the PIL be listed for listening to now. We will record it after the Constitution bench issues recover from, the CJI mentioned.
A five-judge structure bench headed by the CJI is seized of varied issues, together with the Delhi-Centre row over management of providers within the nationwide capital.
The prime court docket, earlier on January 19, was informed by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta that the Centre was trying into the difficulty pertaining to declaring the Ram Sethu as a nationwide heritage monument.
The court docket had requested the Centre to take a choice on the difficulty and granted Swamy the freedom to maneuver earlier than it once more if he’s dissatisfied and disposed of his interim software on the difficulty.
Learned Solicitor General states {that a} course of is at present underway within the Ministry of Culture. He states that the petitioner (Swamy) could submit extra communication if he could so want, the bench had mentioned.
I don’t wish to meet anyone. We are in the identical celebration, it was there in our manifesto. Let them determine in six weeks or no matter, Swamy had mentioned. I’ll come once more, the BJP chief had mentioned.
Swamy had mentioned that in 2019, the then Culture Minister Prahlad Patel had referred to as a gathering on the difficulty and had made a advice for declaring the Ram Sethu as a nationwide heritage monument.
The concern is that they should say– sure’ or no’, he had mentioned. The regulation officer had mentioned that the federal government was trying into it.
Prior to this, the highest court docket had mentioned it might take up the plea of Swamy within the second week of February.
Ram Sethu, also referred to as Adam’s bridge, is a series of limestone shoals between Pamban Island, off the south-eastern coast of Tamil Nadu, and Mannar Island, off the north-western coast of Sri Lanka.
The BJP chief had submitted that he had already gained the primary spherical of the litigation by which the Centre accepted the existence of Ram Sethu.
Swamy had raised the difficulty of declaring the Ram Sethu a nationwide monument in his PIL towards the controversial Sethusamudram Ship Channel undertaking, initiated by the UPA-I authorities.
The matter reached the apex court docket, which in 2007 stayed work for the undertaking on the Ram Sethu.
The Centre later mentioned it had thought-about the “socio-economic disadvantages” of the undertaking and was keen to discover one other path to the transport channel undertaking with out damaging the Ram Sethu.
“That the Government of India intends to explore an alternative to the earlier alignment of the Sethusamudram Ship Channel project without affecting/damaging the Adam’s Bridge/Ram Sethu in the interest of the nation,” the affidavit filed by the ministry had mentioned.
The court docket then requested the federal government to file a recent affidavit.
The Sethusamudram transport channel undertaking has been dealing with protests from some political events, environmentalists and sure Hindu non secular teams.
Under the undertaking, an 83 km water channel was to be created, linking Mannar with Palk Strait, by in depth dredging and elimination of limestone shoals.
On November 13, 2019, the apex court docket had granted the Centre six weeks to make clear its stand on the Ram Sethu.
It had additionally granted Swamy liberty to method the court docket if the response of the Centre was not filed.
