Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Feb 16: High Court proposed to consider the applications seeking repairs, renovations of hotels and other buildings within the peripheries of Dal Lake as the court has been informed that the restraint order is being misrepresented by the authorities from time to time.
The Division Bench of Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey and Justice Vinod Chatterji Kour was hearing an application filed by the owner and proprietors of Hotel Nehru, situated at Boulevard, Srinagar, seeking a direction from the court upon the J&K Waterways Development Authority (LAWDA) and its functionaries to allow the management of the hotel to install the electric passenger lifts in the already constructed building.
The LAWDA counsel submitted before the bench that a number of applications have been filed seeking permission from this court to make renovations, repairs in already constructed buildings falling with the scope of the Public Interest Litigation on preservation and protection of Dal Lake, despite there being restraint order passed by this Court way back on July19, 2002.
The applicant-hotel counsel however, stated that the order passed by this court thereby restraining construction beyond the permissible area, is being misinterpreted by the LAWDA-authority from time to time.
The DB noticed that the issue of seeking modification of order dated 19th of July, 2002, keeps cropping up before the Court repeatedly said that this issue needs to be settled once for all so that filing of such type of applications is avoided.
The DB therefore, in order to consider all such applications after hearing the counsel for the parties as well as the learned Amicus Curiae on this issue so as to clarify the issue and pass appropriate orders thereon, directed the Registry to provide complete paper book of applications to amicus curia during the course of the day.
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