Team Herald
PANJIM: The High Court of Bombay at Goa on Tuesday asked the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) to provide alternate premises to meat vendors evicted from the old municipal fish market building and to submit the structural stability report from the Goa Engineering College on September 18.
The Court was hearing a writ petition filed by Mushtak Hussain Khatib and six others challenging the sealing of their premises/shops in the municipal fish market building by the CCP. Representing CCP, Adv J E Coelho Pereira brought to the notice of the Court that the fish market building was in a dilapidated condition and that the vendors were removed in the interest of public safety and to avoid the occurrence of a mishap.
The CCP counsel also agreed to remove fisherfolk and a beef vendor who was occupying the dilapidated building premises.
The petitioner's counsel Adv Rohit Bras De Sa brought to the notice of the Court that though beef vendors have been removed and premises been sealed, the fisherfolk and one of the beef vendors was occupying premises in the same building. The Court took cognisance of it and said that the CCP commissioner would be held responsible if any mishap or calamity occurs.
The Court also asked the CCP to provide alternate premises to the evicted vendors and to submit the structural stability report of the building to be prepared by the Goa Engineering College, Farmagudi.
The petitioners have been praying to de-seal the premises/shops so that they can carry out their trade/occupation in the said premises and earn their livelihood pending their rehabilitation.