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HC directs CS-led panel to hold meet on Dal lake preservation 5/16/2016 11:44:28 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, May 16: The state high court has directed a high level panel, constituted last month for preserving and protecting Dal lake, to hold a meeting this week. Hearing a PIL on saving Dal lake, a division bench of Justice M H Attar and Justice A M Magrey also left it to the panel headed by the chief secretary to decide about enactment of a law for preserving and protecting the water body. It also directed government to include senior advocate Z A Shah and amicus curie in the PIL as part of the committee. "It is provided that besides including Shah as member of the monitoring committee, respondent state would be at liberty to include any other authority or person, whose presence in the committee would be deemed necessary for taking of proper decision by the committee," the court said and directed the committee to convene its meeting this week. The counsel submitted that until there was a law through which mechanism for preserving and protecting the lake and other water bodies was regulated, it might be difficult to achieve the purpose by any executive committee. "We leave it to the monitoring committee to take call on this vital issue," the court said, adding, "The first issue to be considered by the committee shall be for evolving a permanent mechanism for preservation and protection of Dal lake and other water bodies." The court also directed it to submit report about the deliberations made and decisions taken in the meeting. Meanwhile, the court-appointed vigilance commissioners -- Mohammad Shafi Khan (former session judge) and Abdul Hamid Bhat (former SSP) -- filed their latest report and the court directed the monitoring committee to look into this report and take remedial steps thereafter. The PIL was posted for further consideration on May 27.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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