Supreme Court rejects plea to assemble wall at ‘Ram Sethu’; declares it as ‘nationwide monument’

By Express News Service

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea searching for a course to declare the ‘Ram Sethu’ as a nationwide monument and to assemble a wall on the web site within the sea for just a few meters or kilometres, in order that it may be open for a lot of to have ‘Darshan’.

The public curiosity litigation (PIL) was taken up earlier than a bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Sudhanshu Dhulia and subsequently rejected by the apex courtroom.

In the plea, petitioner Hindu Personal Law Board, via its president Ashok Pandey, prayed for declaring Sri Ram Setu/ Nalahin Setu/Setu Bandh as a nationwide monument throughout the provisions of Ancient Monuments, Archaeological Sites and Remains Act 1958.

‘Ram Sethu’, often known as Adam’s bridge, is a series of limestone shoals between Pamban Island, off the south-eastern coast of Tamil Nadu, and Mannar Island, off the north-western coast of Sri Lanka.

“In case this Setu comes in open, it will give way to people across the world to come to Dhanuskoti (Rameshwaram) for the Darshan of the bridge constructed under the orders of Lord Ram. In case it is done, the common man will be able to walk on this bridge for a few meters. It will fulfil the desire of crores of persons like the petitioner to walk, sit and sleep on the bridge through which Ram along with his army went to Lanka to kill Rawan and to establish Ram Raj in Lanka,” the plea stated.

..it’s certainly good that Sri Nitin Gadkari, the minister given the cost of this division declared within the Parliament that Sri Ram Setu is not going to be destructed and with out destruction of the identical, the Setu Samudram Shipping Canal Project (SSSCP) might be accomplished, it stated additional.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea searching for a course to declare the ‘Ram Sethu’ as a nationwide monument and to assemble a wall on the web site within the sea for just a few meters or kilometres, in order that it may be open for a lot of to have ‘Darshan’.

The public curiosity litigation (PIL) was taken up earlier than a bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Sudhanshu Dhulia and subsequently rejected by the apex courtroom.

In the plea, petitioner Hindu Personal Law Board, via its president Ashok Pandey, prayed for declaring Sri Ram Setu/ Nalahin Setu/Setu Bandh as a nationwide monument throughout the provisions of Ancient Monuments, Archaeological Sites and Remains Act 1958.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

‘Ram Sethu’, often known as Adam’s bridge, is a series of limestone shoals between Pamban Island, off the south-eastern coast of Tamil Nadu, and Mannar Island, off the north-western coast of Sri Lanka.

“In case this Setu comes in open, it will give way to people across the world to come to Dhanuskoti (Rameshwaram) for the Darshan of the bridge constructed under the orders of Lord Ram. In case it is done, the common man will be able to walk on this bridge for a few meters. It will fulfil the desire of crores of persons like the petitioner to walk, sit and sleep on the bridge through which Ram along with his army went to Lanka to kill Rawan and to establish Ram Raj in Lanka,” the plea stated.

..it’s certainly good that Sri Nitin Gadkari, the minister given the cost of this division declared within the Parliament that Sri Ram Setu is not going to be destructed and with out destruction of the identical, the Setu Samudram Shipping Canal Project (SSSCP) might be accomplished, it stated additional.