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Supreme Court asks lawyer to mention plea on Joshimath today
CJI Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud on Monday asked a petitioner, who sought an urgent intervention of the Supreme Court in the land subsidence problem at Uttarakhand’s Joshimath, to mention his plea on Tuesday for listing.
Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud on Monday asked a petitioner, who sought an urgent intervention of the Supreme Court in the land subsidence problem at Uttarakhand’s Joshimath, to mention his plea on Tuesday for listing.
The CJI refrained from assigning a date of hearing to the petition filed by Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati since the plea was mentioned out of turn for urgent listing.
“Mention again on Tuesday after following the due process when your matter is in the mentioning list,” justice Chandrachud told advocate Parmeshwar Nath Mishra, who appeared for the petitioner.
Swami had filed his petition on Saturday, imploring the top court to declare the current incidents of landsliding, subsidence, land sinking, land burst and cracks in the land and properties as a “national disaster”, necessitating a scheme for disaster relief and rehabilitation. It sought a directive to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to actively support the residents of Joshimath at the time of this crisis.
The plea complained that the incident occurred due to large-scale industrialisation and sought immediate financial assistance and compensation for the people of Uttarakhand.
“No development is needed at the cost of human life and their ecosystem and if any such thing is to happen, then it is the duty of the state and Union government to stop the same immediately at war level,” the petition said.
It added the petition was filed to secure the life and personal liberty of the people of Joshimath town in the Chamoli District of Uttarakhand, where people’s lives are in danger due to sudden cases of land subsidence .
