Bombay High Court lifts 2-year stay on freight corridor work

Dismisses plea seeking to stall project connecting U.P. and Maharashtra

The Bombay High Court recently vacated a stay granted two years ago on the 1,504 km Western Dedicated Freight Corridor connecting Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.

While dismissing a plea seeking to stall the project work, the court held, “It is clear that all requisite permission/clearances have been applied for and obtained and there is no report of worth which could be relied upon to hold that the said project is being taken forward upon damaging the environment.”

In a September 20 judgment, a Division Bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G.S. Kulkarni said, “We are satisfied that in a case of the present nature, where public interest is of paramount consideration and the petitioner has failed to set up a cast-iron case before the court for its interference.”