Issue of declaring Ram Sethu as nationwide heritage monument below course of: Centre to SC 

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The Centre on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that it was wanting into the difficulty pertaining to declaring the Ram Sethu as a nationwide heritage monument.

A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice J B Pardiwala, which was listening to a PIL filed by former Rajya Sabha lawmaker Subramanian Swamy on the difficulty, requested the BJP chief to make a illustration to the federal government if he wished so.

“Learned Solicitor General (Tushar Mehta) states that a process is currently underway in the Ministry of Culture. He states that the petitioner (Swamy) may submit additional communication if he may so wish,” the bench stated.

The courtroom requested the Centre to take a call on the difficulty and granted Swamy the freedom to maneuver earlier than it once more if he’s dissatisfied and disposed of his interim utility on the difficulty.

“I do not want to meet anybody. We are in the same party, it was there in our manifesto. Let them decide in six weeks or whatever. I will come again,” Swamy stated.

At the outset of the transient listening to, Swamy stated that in 2019, the then Culture Minister Prahlad Patel had known as a gathering on the difficulty and had made a suggestion for declaring the Ram Sethu as a nationwide heritage monument.

“The issue is that they have to say– ‘yes’ or ‘no’,” he stated.

The regulation officer stated that the federal government was wanting into it. The bench, which was sitting in a three-judge mixture, stated that Justice PS Narasimha is not going to be a part of the proceedings as he had earlier appeared within the matter as a counsel earlier.

Centre tells Supreme Court the method to declare ‘Ram Sethu’ a nationwide heritage monument is at the moment underway within the ministry of Culture.

Supreme Court permits BJP chief Subramanian Swamy to file further supplies associated to the difficulty with the Ministry

— ANI (@ANI) January 19, 2023

Consequently, the order was handed by the 2 judges, the CJI and Justice Pardiwala, within the case.

Earlier, the highest courtroom had stated it might take up their plea of Swamy within the second week of February.

Ram Sethu, also called 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.

The BJP chief had submitted that he had already gained the primary spherical of the litigation through which the Centre accepted the existence of Ram Sethu.

He stated the Union minister involved had known as a gathering in 2017 to contemplate his demand however nothing occurred subsequently.

The BJP chief had raised the difficulty of declaring the Ram Sethu a nationwide monument in his PIL in opposition to the controversial Sethusamudram Ship Channel undertaking, initiated by the UPA-I authorities.

Ram Sethu

The matter reached the apex courtroom, which in 2007 stayed work for the undertaking on the Ram Sethu.

The Centre later stated it had thought-about the “socio-economic disadvantages” of the undertaking and was keen to discover one other path to the transport channel undertaking with out damaging the Ram Sethu.

“That the Government of India intends to explore an alternative to the earlier alignment of the Sethusamudram Ship Channel project without affecting/damaging the Adam’s Bridge/Ram Sethu in the interest of the nation,” the affidavit filed by the ministry had stated.

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The courtroom then requested the federal government to file a contemporary affidavit.

The Sethusamudram transport channel undertaking has been dealing with protests from some political events, environmentalists and sure Hindu non secular teams.

Under the undertaking, an 83 km water channel was to be created, linking Mannar with Palk Strait, by in depth dredging and elimination of limestone shoals.

ALSO READ | ‘Satellite images can’t present direct information on Ram Setu’

On November 13, 2019, the apex courtroom granted the Centre six weeks to make clear its stand on the Ram Sethu. It had additionally granted Swamy liberty to method the courtroom if the response of the Centre was not filed.

NEW DELHI: The Centre on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that it was wanting into the difficulty pertaining to declaring the Ram Sethu as a nationwide heritage monument.

A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice J B Pardiwala, which was listening to a PIL filed by former Rajya Sabha lawmaker Subramanian Swamy on the difficulty, requested the BJP chief to make a illustration to the federal government if he wished so.

“Learned Solicitor General (Tushar Mehta) states that a process is currently underway in the Ministry of Culture. He states that the petitioner (Swamy) may submit additional communication if he may so wish,” the bench stated.

The courtroom requested the Centre to take a call on the difficulty and granted Swamy the freedom to maneuver earlier than it once more if he’s dissatisfied and disposed of his interim utility on the difficulty.

“I do not want to meet anybody. We are in the same party, it was there in our manifesto. Let them decide in six weeks or whatever. I will come again,” Swamy stated.

At the outset of the transient listening to, Swamy stated that in 2019, the then Culture Minister Prahlad Patel had known as a gathering on the difficulty and had made a suggestion for declaring the Ram Sethu as a nationwide heritage monument.

“The issue is that they have to say– ‘yes’ or ‘no’,” he stated.

The regulation officer stated that the federal government was wanting into it. The bench, which was sitting in a three-judge mixture, stated that Justice PS Narasimha is not going to be a part of the proceedings as he had earlier appeared within the matter as a counsel earlier.

Centre tells Supreme Court the method to declare ‘Ram Sethu’ a nationwide heritage monument is at the moment underway within the ministry of Culture.
Supreme Court permits BJP chief Subramanian Swamy to file further supplies associated to the difficulty with the Ministry
— ANI (@ANI) January 19, 2023
Consequently, the order was handed by the 2 judges, the CJI and Justice Pardiwala, within the case.

Earlier, the highest courtroom had stated it might take up their plea of Swamy within the second week of February.

Ram Sethu, also called 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.

The BJP chief had submitted that he had already gained the primary spherical of the litigation through which the Centre accepted the existence of Ram Sethu.

He stated the Union minister involved had known as a gathering in 2017 to contemplate his demand however nothing occurred subsequently.

The BJP chief had raised the difficulty of declaring the Ram Sethu a nationwide monument in his PIL in opposition to the controversial Sethusamudram Ship Channel undertaking, initiated by the UPA-I authorities.

Ram Sethu

The matter reached the apex courtroom, which in 2007 stayed work for the undertaking on the Ram Sethu.

The Centre later stated it had thought-about the “socio-economic disadvantages” of the undertaking and was keen to discover one other path to the transport channel undertaking with out damaging the Ram Sethu.

“That the Government of India intends to explore an alternative to the earlier alignment of the Sethusamudram Ship Channel project without affecting/damaging the Adam’s Bridge/Ram Sethu in the interest of the nation,” the affidavit filed by the ministry had stated.

ALSO READ | Kerfuffle over minister’s Ram Setu response

The courtroom then requested the federal government to file a contemporary affidavit.

The Sethusamudram transport channel undertaking has been dealing with protests from some political events, environmentalists and sure Hindu non secular teams.

Under the undertaking, an 83 km water channel was to be created, linking Mannar with Palk Strait, by in depth dredging and elimination of limestone shoals.

ALSO READ | ‘Satellite images can’t present direct information on Ram Setu’

On November 13, 2019, the apex courtroom granted the Centre six weeks to make clear its stand on the Ram Sethu. It had additionally granted Swamy liberty to method the courtroom if the response of the Centre was not filed.