SC refuses to stay HC order scrapping coastal road project clearances
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay a Bombay High Court order quashing the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) clearance for the Rs 14,000 crore coastal road work, but said it would hear the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)’s plea for interim relief on August 20.
BMC, engineering conglomerate Larsen and Toubro, and a Hindustan Construction Company- Housing Development Corporation joint venture had approached the top court on Friday with a plea that the raw materials for construction of the road had already reached the site and would go bad owing to the ongoing monsoon. A two-judge bench led by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, however, refused to stay the high court order and said that it was not a matter “for summary dismissal”.
On July 17, the high court had quashed the CRZ clearance given to the project and said that “it was obvious that a serious lacuna in the decision making process,” had occurred.
