TEAM HERALD
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NEW DELHI: In an unexplained development, the Goa mining case has been struck off the cause list of the forest bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Aftab Alam for Wednesday, after remaining in queue for the past one fortnight.
The arguments remained inconclusive again on Tuesday in the Karnataka mining matters, the Bench has been hearing since last week.
On a plea two weeks ago by the Goa Government for an early hearing as the complete ban slapped by the Court on the mining activities in the state has been causing a series of hardships, Justice Alam had said that the case is already on the cause list and queued for hearing after completing the matters above it.
The Goa case was listed on Tuesday but it could not come up as the Bench remained tied up with the Karnataka hearing and half a dozen other fresh matters. It is, however, unlisted on Wednesday as the cause list shows two fresh matters and then the Karnataka matter at No 3, followed by a large number of appeals and writ petitions on sexual harassment, kidnapping and abductions.
