MUMBAI: “For a municipal body as also the state government, there cannot be any engagement more urgent than finding appropriate space for burial of the dead,” said Bombay high court on Tuesday, pulling up the state and civic authorities for their lackadaisical attitude.
HC directed the state urban development department to file an affidavit in two weeks on reasons as to why the space reserved for a Muslim cemetery at Deonar has been deleted.
The civic law “casts a duty upon the municipal commissioner to provide a fit and convenient place for disposal of the dead in case the existing places at any time appeared to be insufficient,” said the HC bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Arif Doctor. HC will hear the PIL on September 5.
Swati Deshpande is Senior editor at The Times of India, Mumbai, w...
Read MoreSwati Deshpande is Senior editor at The Times of India, Mumbai, where she has been covering courts for over a decade. She is passionate about law and works towards enlightening people about their statutory, legal and fundamental rights. She makes it her job to decipher for the public the truth, be it in an intricate civil dispute or in a gruesome criminal case.
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