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Pet polluter

Pet polluter the Union government recently said no outside body should be allowed to inquire into effluent discharges from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (barc) at Trombay, Mumbai, because barc's activities are "strategic in nature'. The stand was expressed in an affidavit submitted to the Bombay High Court (hc) by Ananda Bose, joint secretary of Union government's Department of Atomic Energy (doae) in response to a Public Interest Litigation (pil) by Mumbai-based non-governmental organisation Citizens for a Just Society (cjs). The pil alleges: "the bed of the Thane creek

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