SC to dispose all petitions together in one go
GOANEWS DESK, PANAJI | 19 September 2013 20:24 IST
The Supreme Court has finally decided to combine all the petitions together and pass the judgement on Goa’s mining ban case after hearing it till the end.
Accordingly, the hearing would resume next week on Tuesday and will go on till all the sides are heard.
The forest bench thus passed an order today morning, transferring around 10 to 12 writ petitions filed by mining companies and lease holders, lying in the Bombay High Court at Goa, against the Shah Commission report.
The Bombay High Court has been directed to produce the records of all the petitions in the Supreme Court within a week.
The apex court has decided to hear all these petitions together and dispose it of along with Goa Foundation petition.
The bench, headed by Justice A K Patnaik, also consists of Justice S S Nijjar and Justice F M I Kalifulla.
The bench also agreed to take up one hundred claims filed by Goa Paryavaran Suraksha Samittee against over 100 mining companies for environmental damages done by their individual mines.
These claims were pending before the National Green Tribunal.
Goa Mining Peoples Front convenor Adv Suhas Naik, who was also present in the court today, expressed a sigh of relief with the court decision.
“The hearing is preogressing on a positive note and we are hopeful that the systems would be in a place by safeguarding the environment as well as the mining industry”, Naik told goanews.com.
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ESTABLISH GREEN INDUSTRIES IN GOA. GET BACK THE LOOTED MINING AMOUNT OF 35,000 CORERS. CHECK MINING AFFECTED PEOPLES PROPERTIES (SHOPS, FLATS, PLOTS, ETC). LET THE TOURIST ENJOY GREEN SITES OF GOA. BAN MINING IN GOA.
- JOSE ROD, GOA | 21 st September 2013 13:54
ESTABLISH GREEN INDUSTRIES IN GOA. GET BACK THE LOOTED MINING AMOUNT OF 35,000 CORERS. CHECK MINING AFFECTED PEOPLES PROPERTIES (SHOPS, FLATS, PLOTS, ETC). LET THE TOURIST ENJOY GREEN SITES OF GOA. BAN MINING IN GOA.
- JOSE ROD, GOA | 21 st September 2013 13:48
Mining Closure is the blessings to Goa & Goans. Mining closure has brought agriculture to live. Mining closure has given fresh air & greenery look to tourist, who comes to Goa for a fresh air and to look at greenery and not to breath polluted air and to look at red. Mining closure has given a big relieve to all Goans who was continuously breathing the poisonous air.
- John Ferns, Goa | 20 th September 2013 15:11
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