Author: HT Correspondent
Publication: The Hindustan Times
Date: May 15, 2003
URL: http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_253219,000900010009.htm
The MP High Court Wednesday turned
down a writ petition filed by filmmaker Pardeep Krishen, husband of booker
prize winner Arundhati Roy challenging the decision of Hoshangabad district
administration to cancel their mutation of land in Bariam village in Pachmari.
The district administration has cancelled the mutation of the land as it
came under the reserve forest area.
Rejecting the petition Justice Arun
Mishra said that it was an appeal matter and should have been taken up
with the appropriate authorities. Pradeep Kishen along with noted writer
Vikram Seth's sister Anuradha Seth, IFS officer Nishikant Jadhav, his wife
Ashalata Jadhav and one Jagdish Chandra Sharma moved the court against
cancellation of their mutation of land.
A public interest litigation (PIL)
filed by Retired Air Vice-Marshal DS Mishra is pending before a division
bench comprising Chief Justice, Bhawani Singh and Justice SL Jain challenging
the inaction of the State government to prevent construction activities
by influential people in reserved forest area.
The High Court had stayed the construction
work in November 2002 in the reserved areas in Pachmari and served notices
on the authorities.
The petitioner alleged that some
522 people had purchased land near Satpura National Park in Pachmarhi and
its adjoining heritage area, by throwing rules and regulations to the winds.
