Municipal official apologizes for contentious statement

  • | Tuesday | 12th February, 2019

This conduct of the AMC to blame the HC for an order which is confirmed by the Supreme Court is contemptuous in nature, said Talekar. The counsel for the AMC submitted that the said portion from the affidavit will be deleted. Aurangabad: The head of solid waste management of the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) Nandkishore Bhombe has submitted an unconditional apology to the Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court for his contentious statement made with regards to the high court judgement on the Naregaon dumping yard.Incidentally, the high court had restrained the AMC from dumping waste at the Naregaon/Mandki dump yard in its order dated March 9, 2018. Lawyer Pradnya Talekar, who is representing the petitioner, told TOI, “The AMC in it’s recent affidavit in reply has stated that the city was thrown into a crisis when the High Court passed an order injuncting them from dumping the waste at Naregaon. The tone of the affidavit was to blame.The HC was not pleased with the language of the affidavit and on raising an objection to the same, advocate Rajendra Deshmukh, appearing for the AMC, tendered an apology and sought to delete the said sentence.However, the fact remains that the same contention was made by the AMC before the Supreme Court as well as in an earlier affidavit before the High Court.

Aurangabad: The head of solid waste management of the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) Nandkishore Bhombe has submitted an unconditional apology to the Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court for his contentious statement made with regards to the high court judgement on the Naregaon dumping yard.Incidentally, the high court had restrained the AMC from dumping waste at the Naregaon/Mandki dump yard in its order dated March 9, 2018. Referring to the verdict, Bhombe, in an undertaking to the Bombay High Court on January 31, had held the court responsible for the waste crisis in the city.‘This city, which generates approximately 450-500 MT of solid waste per day, was thrown into a crisis when this High Court in the month of February, 2018 permanently restrained the said AMC from using Naregaon as a dumping place, a site that had been used for dumping for many decades’ stated the affidavit.The high court bench, during the hearing on February 1, raised an objection to the statement, following which the AMC in reply had stated that it would submit an unconditional apology for the statement. The counsel for the AMC submitted that the said portion from the affidavit will be deleted. Lawyer Pradnya Talekar, who is representing the petitioner, told TOI, “The AMC in it’s recent affidavit in reply has stated that the city was thrown into a crisis when the High Court passed an order injuncting them from dumping the waste at Naregaon. The tone of the affidavit was to blame.The HC was not pleased with the language of the affidavit and on raising an objection to the same, advocate Rajendra Deshmukh, appearing for the AMC, tendered an apology and sought to delete the said sentence.However, the fact remains that the same contention was made by the AMC before the Supreme Court as well as in an earlier affidavit before the High Court. This conduct of the AMC to blame the HC for an order which is confirmed by the Supreme Court is contemptuous in nature, said Talekar.

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