The Madras High Court on Tuesday wanted to know by when the Greater Chennai Corporation would allow the public to access the Marina beach here and then finalise the tenders for procuring and distributing new pushcarts to the vendors after regulating their presence through issuance of identity cards.
Justices Vineet Kothari and Krishnan Ramasamy granted time till October 5 for Additional Advocate General S.R. Rajagopal to get instructions from Corporation Commissioner G. Prakash also on the time limit within which the fishermen on the loop road along the Marina would be shifted to a market complex.
When the senior judge in the Bench wanted to know whether public were now being allowed to access the beach, which was kept out of bounds since the nationwide lockdown announced in March to fight COVID-19, the AAG said the officials were deliberating on the issue but a final decision was yet…