Public interest litigation (PIL)
The state government and National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) fell under the scanner, as the Kerala High Court today served them an ultimatum of two weeks to provide sufficient reasons for delay in the development of the Kollam-Thiruvananthapuram and Alapuzha-Haripad national highways. Acting on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by one Suresh Babu, [...] Continue Reading »
A total of 5,44,870 buildings and construction workers have been registered in the recent past. This data is up to May 31, 2014 and under the Building and Other Construction Workers Act, 1996 registration process is a mandatory process of all the construction companies. A division bench headed by Chief Justice D H Waghela has posted [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore- The Karnataka High Court, has banned all construction related activities from 10 pm to 6 am in the city. Relaxing its order passed on 6th December, in which the court had directed builders to totally ban all construction or allied activities from 6 pm to 8 am, it has permitted the builders to carry [...] Continue Reading »
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda) to remove encroachments from Sector 17. The court has ordered Huda to develop a market place at the encroached site for the convenience of residents in the locality. 550 families dwelling in the area had been building pressure on Huda to [...] Continue Reading »
A public interest litigation (PIL) filed last month by a social activist has grabbed attention in Mumbai. The Mumbai resident moved the Bombay high court over 4,400 leases executed by the BMC, through which nearly 6.48 crore square feet of the city was leased to private entities. The PIL states that most of the land [...] Continue Reading »
The Hiranandani Group is to construct low-cost affordable houses in Powai. The Bombay high court restrained the Hiranandani group from starting any construction in Powai. The Powai project has been under much controversy so far. Following a public interest litigation (PIL) alleging large scale violations by Hiranandani in building flats instead of affordable houses in [...] Continue Reading »
A notice was ordered to be issues by the Karnataka High Court recently in concern with the PIL and a multi-crore scam in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP). The division bench at high court received hardly 153 files out of 10,109 work files of the BBMP. Midst these 153 files, a scam worth Rs [...] Continue Reading »
Madras High Court has directed Chennai metro rail corporation to carry on metro work without damaging the structural stability of heritage structures in the city. Directions were passed by HC only after Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed by a travel agent to safety the heritage buildings in the city. Heritage buildings such as; Ripon [...] Continue Reading »
The Chhattisgarh High Court booked a public interest litigation (PIL) against the cement plant built on the ‘greenbelt’. The State government regularized on the illegal structure henceforth the court has issued notices to the State secretary of housing and environment and the Central Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) and also on the Steel Authority of India (SAIL). [...] Continue Reading »
