Court to await panel report on alternative alignment
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31/07/2008
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Hindu (New Delhi)
J. Venkatesan
Verdict reserved on plea against demolition of Ramar Sethu
New Delhi: Even as the Centre announced the appointment of an experts committee to consider an alternative route for the Sethusamudram project, the Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved verdict on the petitions challenging its implementation by demolishing Adam's Bridge (Ramar Sethu).
Soon after Fali Nariman, senior counsel appearing for the Centre, told a three-judge Bench about the setting up of the committee, Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan said the judgment would be pronounced after the panel submitted its report. While asking the parties to file their submissions in two weeks, he said the matter would be listed after the report was presented.
Earlier, in his reply, senior counsel K. Parasaran, appearing for one of the petitioners, disputed Mr. Nariman's argument that according to Kamba Ramayanam Lord Ram himself had destroyed Ramar Sethu.
He said the poem referred to by Mr. Nariman and Additional-Solicitor General R. Mohan, in the court on Tuesday, was not in the original text and was a later interpolation. It formed part of