 "Gujarat HC notice to Centre on PIL against road in Mundra")
Petitioner Sulaiman Turk has questioned the construction of 9.6 km long road from the Adani group owned Mundra Port to the National Highway No 8A.
He has alleged that the road is being planned on fertile land of local farmers in order to save private land of industrialists and influential people. He has demanded that the authorities should make their plans clear about the direction and line on which demolition and green felling would take place.
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The PIL contends that if the road was to be built many date palm trees will have to be chopped off and local farmers would face heavy loss. He also raised the issue of local shrine belonging to Ashaba Pir, which might be demolished for construction of this 10 metre wide road.
The petitioner has claimed that the shrine has got many devotees in this part, and its demolition would cause a problem. Hence in order to avoid demolition of this shrine and other religious places as well as in order to mitigate the possible loss to farmers, the authorities should be directed to re-think their plans for this road.
The bench of Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala has asked the union ministry of commerce and industry to come up with a reply in this regard within a week's time.