The Gujarat High Court on Thursday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition challenging the proposed redevelopment of Mahatma Gandhi’s Sabarmati Ashram. The petition was filed by Tushar Gandhi, great grandson of Mahatma Gandhi.
In his petition, Mr. Gandhi had challenged the State government’s redevelopment plan on the grounds that the Sabarmati Ashram would lose its ethos if redevelopment was allowed.
A Bench of Chief Justice Arvind Kumar and Justice A.J. Shashtri dismissed the petition and held that the proposed redevelopment would not alter the Gandhian ethos of the ashram as the government had proposed to redevelop the surrounding areas and not the ashram itself.
