The First Bench of the Madras High Court, hearing a batch of petitions relating to the discharge of untreated effluents into the Noyyal river, is contemplating imposing a fine on the dyeing and bleaching unit owners. The Bench, comprising Chief Justice A.P. Shah and Justice K. Chandru, pointed out that the court-appointed Monitoring Committee and the Expert Committee had recommended that the units should be asked to pay a penalty at the rate of six paise for every litre of untreated effluents let into the river. It had estimated that about 93.4 million litres of such effluents entered the river everyday.