High Court criticises three law students for seeking publicity even before their petition was heard
Criticising three law students for approaching the media for publicity before the court took up their PIL petition, the Karnataka High Court on Wednesday declined to stop the public hearing taken up through video conference mode on the draft Environment Impact Assessment/Environment Management Plan for the eight-lane Peripheral Ring Road (PRR) project of the BDA.
However, the court said that the process of appraisal, to be taken up by the State Level Expert Appraisal Committee based on the EIA, and outcome of the public hearing, as envisaged in the procedure prescribed for granting environmental clearances by the Ministry of Environment and Forests in 2006, should not be undertaken for the PRR project until further orders.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas…