HC to KSPCB: Place on record pollution measurements of Bellandur and Varthur lakes

Swati Deshpande / TNN / May 29, 2020, 23:15 IST

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The Karnataka high court on Friday directed the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) to place on record by next Tuesday the report on the level of pollution measured in Bellandur and Varthur lakes.

HC to KSPCB: Place on record pollution measurements of Bellandur and Varthur lakes

Bellandur lake

BENGALURU: The Karnataka high court on Friday directed the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) to place on record by next Tuesday the report on the level of pollution measured in Bellandur and Varthur lakes.
A division bench headed by Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka also directed BDA to state whether roads are being constructed within the buffer zone of these lakes.
During the hearing, the petitioner’s counsel claimed that roads are being constructed within the buffer zone area and they have photographs to substantiate the same.

The PIL is filed by city based advocate Geetha Misra. She claims that the two lakes and Vrishabavathy river are near clean owing to stoppage of industrial activities during the Covid-19 related lockdown period and a direction needs to be given to KSPCB for maintaining the present position.

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Swati Deshpande

Swati Deshpande is Senior editor at The Times of India, Mumbai, where she has been covering courts for over a decade. She is passionate about law and works towards enlightening people about their statutory, legal and fundamental rights. She makes it her job to decipher for the public the truth, be it in an intricate civil dispute or in a gruesome criminal case.

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