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The Tamil Nadu authorities connected Thursday (December 11, 2025) informed the Madras High Court that the ‘ground truthing’ workout for fixing the boundaries of the Ramsar tract astir the Pallikararanai marshland successful Chennai has been completed. The study has present been forwarded to Chengalpattu Collectorate for authentication.
Appearing earlier the archetypal Division Bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan, Advocate General P.S. Raman said, aft the Collectorate authenticates the ‘ground truthing’ report, it would beryllium placed earlier the Supreme Court successful the 3rd week of January.
He, arsenic good arsenic elder counsel P. Wilson, representing Tamil Nadu State Wetland Authority, told the Bench that lone aft the authentication, it could beryllium conclusively proven whether the tract wherever Brigade Enterprises had planned high-rise residential towers falls wrong the prohibitory portion oregon not.
On his part, elder counsel C. Manishankar, representing the backstage existent property developer, told the judges the onshore successful question had been issued with ‘patta’ arsenic aboriginal arsenic successful 1935 and therefore, by nary agelong of imaginativeness could it autumn nether the class of wetland.
After taking enactment of the submissions, the Chief Justice’s Bench decided to perceive a nationalist involvement litigation (PIL) petition, pending earlier it against the operation of the high-rise towers, aft the submission of the authenticated ‘ground truthing’ study earlier the Supreme Court.
