Plea to restrain authorities from demolishing PWD bridge dismissed

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has dismissed a petition that had sought a absorption to restrain the authorities from demolishing the aged PWD span crossed the Kannadian transmission successful Tirunelveli district.

Earlier, the tribunal had directed the authorities to earmark a pathway with due barricade connected 1 broadside of the caller span crossed the transmission to alteration pedestrians to locomotion safely contempt the travel of traffic.

The State informed a Division Bench of Justices Anita Sumanth and C. Kumarappan that portion efforts were being made to conception a kerb arsenic directed, determination was absorption from the public, arsenic they were adamant that lone a caller footbridge should beryllium constructed.

In airy of these circumstances, which forestall the implementation of the via media proposition made by the court, we person nary further enactment but to disregard the petition, the tribunal said.

The tribunal was proceeding a petition filed by K.M. Mariappan, who sought a absorption to restrain the authorities from demolishing the aged PWD span crossed Kannadian channel. The petitioner said it was being utilized arsenic a pathway. Pedestrians usage the pathway to scope their destinations astatine Kallidaikurichi and Ambasamudram.

A caller span was constructed successful 2009 facilitating vehicular movement. The caller span was utilized by conveyance users and the aged span was utilized arsenic a pedestrian pathway. The petitioner was aggrieved by the attempts of the authorities to demolish the aged span portion the authorities submitted that the aged span was not successful a acceptable information to transportation adjacent pedestrians.

The tribunal had observed that the perfect concern would beryllium for a abstracted span to beryllium built for pedestrians and this whitethorn beryllium considered arsenic an option. However, the radical indispensable person a harmless entree to the different broadside of the channel, contempt the travel of postulation connected the caller bridge.