The Supreme Court on Friday recorded the assurance given by Uttarakhand Chief Secretary Radha Raturi that she and her fellow officers were personally looking into efforts to prevent and combat forest fires in the State.
A Bench of Justices B.R. Gavai and Sandeep Mehta asked the Chief Secretary to meet with Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and the court’s own amicus curiae to work out the modalities to resolve the problem of forest fires, which had recently claimed five lives in Uttarakhand.
In the previous hearing, the court had decided to examine if the Uttarakhand government had adopted a “lackadaisical” approach to dousing forest fires.
