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Court adjourns case on Metro rail

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday adjourned further hearing on a petition by the traders and residents of Chinmaya Mission Hospital (CMH) Road in Indiranagar, Bangalore, seeking to stay all further proceedings by the Government in taking up the Metro project.The CMH Shops and Establishments and Residents’ Association, Indiranagar, and others had moved the court seeking a change in the alignment of the metro from CMH Road to Old Madras Road.During an earlier hearing, the court had ordered issue of notices to the State Government and the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited and also directed the Government and the authorities to desist from cutting any trees on CMH Road. Senior counsel Pramila Nesargi, who is appearing for the association and two other petitioners — K. V. Ramakrishna and N. Suresh Kumar — said they had given a representation in August 2006 to the Chief Minister pointing out the defects in the project as enumerated by the Justice K. Shivashankar Bhat Commission which had gone into the issue.

They said that on November 15, the State Government had issued a notification, asking the Metro Rail Corporation to proceed with the work and also saying that there would not be any change in the alignment.

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