Madurai
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has directed Madurai Corporation to submit a report on the proposal to install the gasifier in the Karpaganagar crematorium after the local residents complained that it was coming up on a waterbody.
A Division Bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice T.S. Sivagnanam directed the Corporation to submit the report in four weeks. The court was hearing the petition filed by the President of Madurai Karpaganagar Nagarathar Sangam K.N. Subramanian.
The court said that the petitioner referred to a court decree passed in 1991 and complained of the gasifier being put up on a water body. Revenue records showed that some part of the area was a water body.
The Regional Transport Office and other government departments have set up offices here for over 30 years. A crematorium is also there in the area. Pursuant to the appeal made by the residents, a less polluting variant of the gasifier was proposed to be installed.
Even if it was…