PANJIM: A contempt of Court petition has been filed by Advocate. Aires Rodrigues before the Bombay High Court at Goa against the Goa Government over its inaction against the continued dumping of building debris and garbage along the Panjim-Old Goa bypass road.
In his petition, Adv Rodrigues pointed out that in 2007 a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed over the rampant dumping of building debris along the Panjim-Old Goa bypass road and that taking serious note of the gross violations of law, various orders came to be passed by the High Court in that petition which was finally disposed on June 26, 2008 based on a Minutes of Order that was signed and submitted to the Court.
“In the Minutes of Order, the Goa Government had undertaken to continue and take to its logical conclusion, investigations into the dumping of construction debris on the Panjim-Old Goa bypass. Also, in the Minutes of Order, amongst other things the government had also undertaken, within three months, to identify and designate separate places for safe disposal of building debris without harming the environment,” the petition reads
The petition further says that it was very anguishing that it is almost a decade and over the years the Goa Government has done nothing to comply with the solemn undertaking given to the High Court on June 26, 2008 and that the mala fied conduct of the authorities amounts to rank disobedience to the orders of the Court.
Adv Rodrigues has, in the petition, also pointed out that on July 25, 2007 while the Advocate General assured the Court that the unlawful dumping of debris would be investigated by the Old Goa Police Station, the Court had also directed the Merces Panchayat to take urgent steps to remove the debris and dispose it off in accordance with the Rules.
Meanwhile, the petition will come up for hearing on October 25 before the Vacation Judge Justice Prithviraj Chavan.
