Case on Namma Metro adjourned

Case on Namma Metro adjourned

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Monday adjourned to September 19 a public interest litigation (PIL) petition by the CMH Traders and Residents’ Association of Indiranagar questioning the legality and validity of the Bangalore Metro project.

A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran and Justice V. Gopala Gowda heard the petitioner’s case questioning the legality of the project and also the decision of the State and the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation to go ahead with the alignment of the metro on CMH Road instead of Old Madras Road.

Senior counsel Pramila Nesargi, appearing for the petitioners, said the project should have been taken up under the Railways Act and not the Mysore Tramways Act, 1906. She said there was no specific order for commencing work on the metro. She said though the residents had suggested that it would be more profitable if the alignment was shifted, their pleas went unheeded.