MUMBAI: The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) on Thursday approached the Bombay High Court in search of an pressing listening to on a plea filed by way of the Parsi group in the city opposing the alignment of the Mumbai Metro III mission.
The MMRC instructed a bench of Justices AS Oka and RI Chagla that its tunnelling and drilling paintings for the Colaba-Bandra-Seepz direction would reach upto the site of 2 of the Parsi hearth temples in the city in about 25 days from now.
The group has been opposing such tunnelling paintings alleging that the similar might purpose severe injury to the temples.
In May this 12 months, several participants of the group and a few prime clergymen from two Parsi temples had approached a holiday bench of the HC opposing the drilling paintings for two tunnels for the metro III line.
The petitioners instructed the HC that the MMRC used to be making two tunnels close to Azad Maidan as part of the paintings at the Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ Metro III hall.
As in keeping with the prevailing plan of MMRC, these tunnels will cross without delay below two hearth temples and Atash Behrams (sacred fires), one on the junction of Princess Street, and another at Kalbadevi in South Mumbai, each heritage sites.
The petitioners mentioned the proposed paintings, in its present shape, will lead to desecration of the holy fires, threaten the structural protection of the temple structures, either one of which can be heritage constructions, and that the wells on the temples might run dry because of the tunnelling paintings.
The MMRC, alternatively, had denied that it is paintings would purpose any injury to the temples.
The bench led by way of Justice Oka has now scheduled the listening to at the pleas for July 17 this 12 months.
It also granted every week's time to the MMRC to file a testimony clearing its stand at the issue.
The MMRC instructed a bench of Justices AS Oka and RI Chagla that its tunnelling and drilling paintings for the Colaba-Bandra-Seepz direction would reach upto the site of 2 of the Parsi hearth temples in the city in about 25 days from now.
The group has been opposing such tunnelling paintings alleging that the similar might purpose severe injury to the temples.
In May this 12 months, several participants of the group and a few prime clergymen from two Parsi temples had approached a holiday bench of the HC opposing the drilling paintings for two tunnels for the metro III line.
The petitioners instructed the HC that the MMRC used to be making two tunnels close to Azad Maidan as part of the paintings at the Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ Metro III hall.
As in keeping with the prevailing plan of MMRC, these tunnels will cross without delay below two hearth temples and Atash Behrams (sacred fires), one on the junction of Princess Street, and another at Kalbadevi in South Mumbai, each heritage sites.
The petitioners mentioned the proposed paintings, in its present shape, will lead to desecration of the holy fires, threaten the structural protection of the temple structures, either one of which can be heritage constructions, and that the wells on the temples might run dry because of the tunnelling paintings.
The MMRC, alternatively, had denied that it is paintings would purpose any injury to the temples.
The bench led by way of Justice Oka has now scheduled the listening to at the pleas for July 17 this 12 months.
It also granted every week's time to the MMRC to file a testimony clearing its stand at the issue.
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