Thread by @barandbench

#CourtroomExchange in #MadrasHighCourt while passing orders in PIL against river Amaravati pollution

CJ Sanjib Banerjee: This is not for you and me, it is for your children ... air they will not be able to breathe, the water they will not be able to touch...

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Advocate V Ragavachari: There was a time when the water, we used to drink from wells ... Cooum was a river, now is a drain going around the city

CJ: We will take up Cooum in due course ... I am waiting for some litigation where I can put my personal knowledge into use

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CJ adds that on evening walks, on "can’t stand sometimes because of the stench" from the Cooum river.

CJ: We have a high wall, but the stench just wafts through...

Ragavachari: We used to see fishes there. Now it is full of sludge

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CJ: If we cross the Napier bridge, sometimes even in the air-conditioned, car you can feel the foul odour ... Something has to be done. We can't leave the world so toxic that we breed the future only to poison them to death.

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State urges Court to direct that order passed today be uploaded by tomorrow.

CJ: Day after tomorrow? Why not this evening? This is an open invitation if the order is not uploaded by the following working day, you can question us why it is not done.

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