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Polluting units get a kick

New Delhi: Taking a serious view of filing frivolous petitions by a group of industrialists and factory owners causing delay in the construction of a Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) in Anand Parbat area here, the Delhi High Court has slapped a cost of Rs two lakh on them.

Dismissing a joint petition filed by them through Confederation of Delhi Indutrialists Societies challenging the 1998 notification of Central Government considering for setting up of the plant, a Division Bench of Justice Vikranjit Sen and Justice J.P. Singh asked them to deposit the amount with the High Court's Registrar General within a month.

"They (factory owners) somehow want to continue with the discharge of polluting material into the river Yamuna and are leaving no stone unturned to see that pollution of all types to continue to the detriment of the children," the court observed in a judgement earlier this week.

The factory owners have filed a petition before the Bench challenging the notification of Centre asking them to bear 50 percent share to meet the cost of the CETP in June 1998. -- PTI

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