HC rejects Punjab’s status report on groundwater

Chandigarh | Saturday | 22nd September, 2018

Summary:

(Representational image) The HC has given three weeks’ time to the state to file a comprehensive and detailed status-report. The HC has given three weeks’ time to the state to file a comprehensive and detailed status-report. “However, there are no details as to when this data was collected or the report was submitted when. The bench was hearing a case, filed by advocate Hari Chand Arora, related to misuse of groundwater for construction purposes in the state. The division bench, in fact, had observed that the officials were actually trying to deceive the court with such reports..