Expressway project: HC puts govt. in a fix

The Madras High Court on Friday put the State government in a fix by tagging two public interest litigation petitions filed against acquisition of wetlands for the proposed ₹10,000 crore Salem-Chennai expressway with a couple of writ appeals filed by the government in 2014 refusing to part with lands, classified as water bodies, for improving the Tiruchi-Pudukottai-Karaikudi section of National Highway (NH)-210.
A Division Bench of Justices K.K. Sasidharan and R. Subramanian passed the interim order when the PIL petition filed by advocate A.P. Suryaprakasam, 65, came up for admission. The lawyer had sought a direction to the Centre as well as State government to constitute a committee of experts to study the ecological damage that result on account of indiscriminate land acquisition for the proposed expressway.

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