The public
interest litigation petitions, filed last year, alleging indiscriminate mining
of sand from Tamirabharani riverbed in the guise of desilting Srivaikundam
check dam in Thoothukudi district, have been dismissed by the Madras High Court
Bench in Madurai.
One of the
petitions had alleged that around 4,500 tonnes of sand had been mined from the
riverbed illegally in the guise of desilting and hence there was a necessity to
form a State-level monitoring committee for supervising river sand mining.
“Last year too,
some PIL petitioners had asked the High Court to stop the desilting work, to
which the High Court had suggested that the petitioners should approach the
National Green Tribunal (NGT) and seek modification of the order granting
permission for desilting”, says Vaikundarajan, founder of VV Minerals India,
one of the leading sand beach mining companies in India.
The Division Bench dismissed these petitions
after Special Government Pleader M. Govindan recorded a statement that the
issue was seized of by the NGT which had modified the permission granted for desilting
and ordered maintenance of status quo
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