Petitioner told to inform Corporation about gypsies on Marina before plea to act
Dismissing a public interest litigation seeking to shift the abode of gypsies from the Marina Beach, the MHC has held that though the Chennai Corporation has a duty to maintain the Marina clean, a direction cannot be issued to it based on a mere asking.
By : migrator
Update: 2018-03-23 19:08 GMT
Chennai
A division bench comprising Justice S Manikumar and Justice Bhavani Subbaroyan dismissed the PIL filed by Kanimozhi Mathi of Chennai after holding that the Chennai Corporation has not been informed about the abode of gypsies on Marina Beach and the court can act only on the failure of the Corporation to perform its duty is brought up.
The petitioner had contended that a group of gypsies have set up their residence on the Marina near the swimming pool and they were using the open beach space as their toilets resulting in inconvenience to regular walkers. She sought for a direction to the Chennai Corporation to shift the abode of gypsy people from Marina beach and provide better and sufficient residing place for them and not to permit anyone to set up their abode in future.
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