Plea on pipeline blast: Gujarat HC issues notice to ONGC, government authorities

A division bench of the Gujarat High Court on Wednesday issued notices to ONGC, government authorities and administrative bodies in a public interest litigation concerning an ONGC pipeline blast in Kalol, Gandhinagar in December 2020 that had killed three of one family. The PIL has sought that responsibility be fixed of the parties or persons whose acts led to the incident and that the housing societies on such lands be shifted or the ONGC pipelines be re-routed, in view of human safety.

The PIL has been filed by one Viralgiri Goswami, represented by advocates Rahul Sharma and Utkash Dave. As per the PIL, preliminary inquiries following the pipeline blast had shown that one Garden City Cooperative Housing Society was constructed on land under which ONGC pipelines were passing,