{"id":8159,"date":"2011-01-10T20:59:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T15:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=8159"},"modified":"2011-01-10T20:59:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T15:29:14","slug":"court-questions-gujarat-on-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-questions-gujarat-on-pollution","title":{"rendered":"Court questions Gujarat on pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8160\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8160\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Gujarat-Pollution-Control-Board-GPCB.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8160\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-questions-gujarat-on-pollution\/gujarat-pollution-control-board-gpcb\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/01\/Gujarat-Pollution-Control-Board-GPCB.jpg?fit=248%2C203&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"248,203\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/01\/Gujarat-Pollution-Control-Board-GPCB.jpg?fit=248%2C203&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8160\" title=\"Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Gujarat-Pollution-Control-Board-GPCB.jpg?resize=248%2C203&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/01\/Gujarat-Pollution-Control-Board-GPCB.jpg?w=248&amp;ssl=1 248w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/01\/Gujarat-Pollution-Control-Board-GPCB.jpg?resize=150%2C122&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A letter from a man over official apathy towards pollution by industries in east Ahmedabad was Monday turned into a public interest suit by the Gujarat High Court, which questioned the government over the allegation.<\/p>\n<p>The court issued notices to the government, the State Human Rights Commission, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>A bench of Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Justice K.M. Thaker acted on its own initiative on the letter written by Alpesh Bhavsar and treated the communication as a public interest litigation (PIL).<\/p>\n<p>The bench asked the government and others to file affidavits and posted the matter for hearing Jan 24.<\/p>\n<p>Based on a report in a newspaper on the alleged illegal disposal of chemical waste by industrial units in the city, Bhavsar wrote that such disposal endangered the lives of people.<\/p>\n<p>Bhavsar&#8217;s letter said that the civic body and the pollution control board had failed in discharging their duties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s the duty of the AMC and the GPCB to take action against industrial units haphazardly releasing chemical water in residential areas,&#8217; he claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A letter from a man over official apathy towards pollution by industries in east Ahmedabad was Monday turned into a public interest suit by the Gujarat High Court, which questioned the government over the allegation. 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