Tech institute to assess whether Metro work can affect Parsi temples
High Court asks VJTI to submit its assessment report in 10 days.
TheBombay High Court on Wednesday appointed a city-based technological institute to ascertain if tunnelling work for the Metro III line could cause any structural damage to two Parsi temples.
A bench of Justices AS Oka and RI Chagla directed the Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), appointed as an independent expert body, to submit its report to the court in 10 days.
The petitioners told the high court that the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) was making two tunnels near theAzad Maidan area in south Mumbai as part of its work on the Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ Metro III corridor .
The petitioners said the proposed work, in its current form, would lead to desecration of the holy fires, threaten the structural safety of the temple buildings, and might also make the wells at the temples run dry.
The MMRC had informed the court on Tuesday that following apprehensions by the Parsi community, it had altered the alignment of the tunnelling work by around four metres. The bench, however, said an independent expert must be consulted to assess whether the MMRC’s assurances would hold true.
The
A bench of Justices AS Oka and RI Chagla directed the Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), appointed as an independent expert body, to submit its report to the court in 10 days.
The bench was hearing a plea filed by the Parsi community in the city opposing the drilling work for two tunnels of the Metro III line.
The petitioners told the high court that the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) was making two tunnels near the
The petitioners said the proposed work, in its current form, would lead to desecration of the holy fires, threaten the structural safety of the temple buildings, and might also make the wells at the temples run dry.
The MMRC had informed the court on Tuesday that following apprehensions by the Parsi community, it had altered the alignment of the tunnelling work by around four metres. The bench, however, said an independent expert must be consulted to assess whether the MMRC’s assurances would hold true.
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