HC rejects assessment appeal versus Nirma plant

HC rejects assessment appeal versus Nirma plantOn Monday the Gujarat High Court dismissed the assessment appeal reported by a set of farmers viz-a-viz the court judgment provided green signal to Nirma Ltd to build a cement plant all along the coastline Mahuva's.

The petition filed under the PIL in the high court by Shree Mahuva Bandhara Khetiwadi Pariyavan Bachav Samittee, has also moved towards the Supreme Court. In the meantime, the farmers also recorded an assessment petition quoting ecological matters that according to them were not considered into contemplation by the high court whilst refusing their PIL.

Coming into view for the lobbyist, the senior counsel SB Vakil asserted in front of a bench regulated by Chief Justice S J Mukhopadhaya that the counter itself had agreed to the actuality that water body be present on the land.

Even now permitting the group to set up construction and accommodating Nirma's offer to give up a plot was not anything but an attempt by the high court to save the project, and not to shield the water body.

As per the argument made by advocate Vakil that the verdict of the high court can be witnessed in infringement of previous order, wherein a panel issued instructions not to bother a water body at any price. He also asserted that the high court's command looks like minor change of the state government's command, although the court is neither an administrative body nor a specialist body.