New Delhi, September 20
The Delhi High Court has dismissed and withdrawn a plea which claimed high tension wires hanging as low as 10 to 15 feet were endangering the lives of people living in East Delhi’s Laxmi Nagar colony.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice B. C. Patel and
Justice A. K. Sikri allowed the petition by a Laxmi Nagar resident to be withdrawn on the request of the petitioner after the Court said he should first approach the appropriate authority and give a representation in this regard.
The judges, however, said if the problem was not sorted out even then, the petitioner could move the court again, but should annex photographic evidence to support his claims.
The petition said the wires endangered the lives of people living in first floors and above, and claimed that the cables were just a few feet away from windows and balconies at some places.
Before dismissing the petition, the court noted that the high-tension wires had been there for the past 20 to 25 years and observed that the problem was half created by the residents themselves by encroaching upon public land.
