Team Herald
PANJIM: The High Court of Bombay at Goa has adjourned to July 19 the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed against the ordinance on the Goa Regularization of Unauthorised Construction.
When the matter came up for hearing on Monday, the bench appointed Advocate Ryan Menezes as amicus curiae, who sought time to place his arguments on the case. The court thereafter adjourned the hearing to July 19.
Last week a group of social activists had moved the High Court seeking to quash or stay the ordinance citing the recent order of the Bombay High Court that slammed the Maharashtra government over its move to regularise nearly two lakh illegal structures.
Goa government on June 24 had issued an ordinance to provide for regularization of unauthorized constructions existing before February 28, 2014. Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar had stated that the Bill on the regularization of the unauthorized structures would be tabled in the coming session of the Legislative Assembly later this month.
