NGO NBF appeals to High Court to vacate stay on NGT proceedings on Bellandur Lake case

NBF submits interlocutory applications appealing to vacate the stay order. The division bench admitted the IA and would hear it along with Shashi Distiller’s petition. Senior lawyer Sajjan Poovayya is representing NBF.

The NGO Namma Bengaluru Foundation (NBF) has submitted interlocutory applications to High Court appealing to vacate the stay order issued on the proceedings of National Green Tribunal (NGT).  The NGT had issued notices on April 19, 2017, to State Government and the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) directing to clean Bellandur Lake within a month's time and to shut down all factories that released untreated effluents into the lake, reported Kannada Prabha.

A petition was filed by M/s Shashi Distilleries at Hulimavu, taking objection to the notice stating that it did not release any effluent into the lake.  It had also appealed to dismiss the closure order issued by KSPCB, following the orders of NGT, New Delhi.

The division bench comprising Justice S K Mukherjee and Justice P S Dinesh Kumar heard the petition on June 16 and issued a stay order for the proceedings of NGT, Delhi. It had also stayed the closure order issued to Shashi Distilleries by KSPCB. Namma Bengaluru Foundation had appealed to the hIgh Court to vacate the stay orders.

On Wednesday, senior lawyer Sajjan Poovayya appeared on behalf of NBF and requested to consider his client as the 6th appellant and give provision for presenting argument.  The bench agreed to this and said it would consider the interlocutory applications along with the Shashi Distilleries petition.