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MCD affidavit over abattoir rejected

Civic body taken to task for inordinate delay

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the affidavit filed by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) detailing steps taken to shift the slaughterhouse from congested Idgah area in Central Delhi to Ghazipur in East Delhi.

The bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhan, S B Sinha and A K Mathur directed the MCD to file a fresh status report by February 6, indicating progress made in the construction work and time schedule for importing machinery from Germany and installing the same at the site.

The apex court also scolded the civic body for changing its counsel on every date of hearing threatening that the court may appoint a counsel of its own choice if its counsel Altaf Hussain, who appeared today on its behalf, was found missing on the next date of hearing.

The MCD counsel, however, opposed the plea saying that it was the right of a litigant to have a counsel of its own choice.

The court also took the civic body to task for inordinate delay in completing the construction and also for not being able to complete the same within the stipulated period till March 31.

While hearing a PIL on shifting of slaughterhouse from Idgah to Ghazipur the apex court said that since the machinery was still in Germany it would not be possible to complete the job even by June 2006.

Earlier, counsel for the Pollution Control Board Vijay Panjwani said shifting of the slaughterhouse did not seem possible in near future and the issue has been hanging since 1995 causing unhygienic conditions at Idgah and surrounding areas. -- UNI

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