After eight years, the Supreme Court has vacated an interim stay granted by it to the functioning of two committees constituted by the Madras High Court in August 2015 to oversee government action against unauthorised constructions all over the Nilgiris district and the Kodaikanal hills in Dindigul district.
A two-judge Bench of Justices A.S. Bopanna and P.S. Narasimha of the apex court has disposed of an appeal filed by the State government in 2015 against the constitution of the two committees, to be chaired by Justices K. Chandru and K. Sampath, and permitted the High Court to take a call on the need for such committees.
“At this stage we are of the opinion that in a matter where the High Court, at that stage, through the impugned (under challenge) order had only constituted a committee to examine the issue and due to the time lapse it is not necessary to go into the correctness or otherwise of the same since the writ petitions are still pending before the High court,” the Bench wrote.
