Demolition of heritage building stayed

  • 10/12/2005

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

The Madras High Court has stayed the demolition or change of character of the Bharath Insurance Building, a scheduled Grade-A heritage building, at the Anna Salai-General Patters Road junction in Chennai. The First Bench comprising Chief Justice A.P. Shah and Justice K.Chandru granted the interim injunction, on a public interest litigation petition filed by the Indian National Trust for Architectural and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), on Thursday. The matter was mentioned before the Bench in the morning and brought up for hearing around noon.