A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea for a fast-track basis hearing of the PIL against the installation of high-tension electricity lines by an Adani Group-owned power plant at Farakka in Murshidabad district.
The division bench of Calcutta High Court’s Chief Justice Prakash Srivastava and Justice Rajarshi Bhradwaj had on January 31 admitted the PIL filed by the Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR) and 30 fruit farmers in the Farakka region. The petition was against setting up of the high-tension electricity lines over the agricultural land in the region by the Adani Group-owned power plant as part of a project stretching from Jharkhand’s Godda district to Bangladesh.
