STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: A Division Bench (DB) of State High Court Jammu comprising Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Tashi Rabstan on Tuesday granted four weeks to Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) for taking action against illegally erected mobile transmitting towers.
The court direction came in a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by a law student namely Navyug Sethi seeking direction to respondents to issue appropriate directions to telecom companies to shift/re-locate their mobile transmitting towers from the residential areas to such places/areas which have been specifically earmarked and specified for installation of Mobile Transmitting Towers as per the guidelines issued by the JMC on April 10, 2016.
After hearing Senior Advocate Sunil Sethi with Advocate Summit Nayyar for the PIL, the court also granted four weeks to Union of India to file status report with regard to the omission levels with respect to illegally erected mobile towers.
During the course of hearing, Advocate Sachin Gupta appearing for the JMC submitted that Corporation has already identified 360 mobile towers which have been erected illegally. It was also submitted that JMC has already issued notices to 60 persons on whose houses such mobile towers have been erected illegally and sought time to take suitable action for remaining towers.
The DB while granting four weeks to take action against illegal mobile towers observed that it should be done positively by the next date of hearing failing which this court shall be constrained to pass appropriate orders against the respondents.
