{"id":357384,"date":"2020-06-15T12:05:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T06:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=357384"},"modified":"2020-06-15T12:29:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T06:59:39","slug":"gauhati-hc-dismisses-pil-on-assam-gas-well-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gauhati-hc-dismisses-pil-on-assam-gas-well-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauhati HC dismisses PIL on Assam gas well tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gauhati High Court has dismissed a PIL against PSU major Oil India, a private firm, the Centre and the state over the Baghjan gas well blowout and successive fire in Assam&#8217;s Tinsukia district. <\/p>\n<p>Hearing arguments from both the petitioner and respondents, the bench comprising chief justice Ajai Lamba and justice Soumitra Saikia on Friday disposed of the public interest litigation filed by environmentalist-cum-entrepreneur Niranta Gohain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In Paragraph 4 of the petition, it has been pleaded that the petitioner has no personal interest in the litigation. However, learned counsel for the petitioner states that the petitioner is an entrepreneur and has a lodge in the nearby area.https:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/states\/north-east\/gauhati-high-court-dismisses-pil-on-assam-gas-well-tragedy\/cid\/1780625<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gauhati High Court has dismissed a PIL against PSU major Oil India, a private firm, the Centre and the state over the Baghjan gas well blowout and successive fire in Assam&#8217;s Tinsukia district. Hearing arguments from both the petitioner and respondents, the bench comprising chief justice Ajai Lamba and justice Soumitra Saikia on Friday disposed of the public interest litigation filed by environmentalist-cum-entrepreneur Niranta Gohain. &#8220;In Paragraph 4 of the petition, it has been pleaded that the petitioner has no personal interest in the litigation. However, learned counsel for the petitioner states that the petitioner is an entrepreneur and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}