The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to listen to on March 9 BJP chief Subramanian Swamy’s plea searching for a path to the Center to declare the ‘Ram Sethu’ a nationwide heritage monument.
A bench comprising Chief Justice NV Ramana and Justices AS Bopanna and Hima Kohli was informed by Swamy that the plea has not come up for listening to for the final a number of months and that it’s going to not be deleted from the trigger record. “We will list for hearing on March 9,” the bench mentioned.
Swamy had talked about his plea for pressing listening to on April 8 final yr as nicely. Before that, on January 23, 2020, the apex courtroom had mentioned it’ll take into account Swamy’s plea after three months.
Ram Sethu, also referred to as Adam’s bridge, is a series of limestone shoals between Pamban Island, also referred to as Rameswaram Island, off the south-eastern coast of Tamil Nadu, and Mannar Island, off the north-western coast of Sri Lanka.
The BJP chief had submitted he had already gained the primary spherical of the litigation during which the Center accepted the existence of Ram Sethu. He additional mentioned the Union minister involved had known as a gathering in 2017 to think about his demand however nothing occurred later.
The BJP chief had raised the difficulty of declaring the Ram Sethu a nationwide monument in his PIL towards the controversial Sethusamudram Ship Channel undertaking, initiated by the UPA-I authorities.
The matter reached the apex courtroom, which in 2007 had stayed work for the undertaking on the Ram Sethu.
The Center later mentioned it had thought-about the “socio-economic disadvantages” of the undertaking and was prepared to discover one other path to the transport channel undertaking with out damaging the Ram Sethu.
“That the Government of India intends to explore an alternative to the earlier alignment of Skeletomuscular Ship Channel project without affecting/damaging the Adam’s Bridge/Ram Sethu in the interest of the nation,” the affidavit filed by the ministry had mentioned.
The courtroom had then requested the federal government to file a recent affidavit.
The Sethusamudram transport channel undertaking has been going through protests from some political events, environmentalists and sure Hindu spiritual teams. Under the undertaking, an 83 km-long deep water channel was to be created, linking Mannar with Palk Strait, by intensive dredging and removing of limestone shoals.
The apex courtroom had on November 13, 2019 granted six weeks to the Center to make clear its stand on the Ram Sethu. It had additionally granted liberty to Swamy to strategy the courtroom if the response of the Center was not filed.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
