Metro: HC seeks suggestions

Metro: HC seeks suggestions

Staff Reporter
BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday asked the traders and residents of Chinmaya Mission Road in Indiranagar to place before it suggestions regarding the places where the Bangalore Metro project could go underground. A Special Bench comprising Justice V. Gopala Gowda and Justice N. Ananda made this suggestion when it was hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) petition by the CMH Shops and Establishments and Residents’ Association and several others.

The petitioners were seeking a stay of all further proceedings by the Government in taking up the metro project in the city. Assailing the project, they said it was taken up without obtaining environmental clearance. Moreover, there was a need now to change the alignment of the metro from CMH Road to Old Madras Road. The Bench asked the petitioners to give pinpoint places where the metro could go underground and adjourned further hearing of the case.