A division bench of the Gujarat High Court on Tuesday dismissed a public interest litigation by Ahmedabad-based trade union Bandhkam Mazdoor Sangathan that sought the rehabilitation of 75 slum-dwellers evicted in Ahmedabad for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project.
The verdict by a division bench of Chief Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice AJ Shastri, a detailed copy of which is yet to be made public, said that “after careful consideration of every material, we found no case” and added that the petitioner “can give representation to the government”.
It will be open for the petitioner to “avail any other remedy to ventilate their grievance by putting specific representation in which event the state authorities with sympathetic approach, (can) consider their claim and find out if it fits in any other policy”, it said.
