In addition to petitions seeking to quash the approval, petitioners also asked for a direction restraining any construction activity within a one-kilometre radius of the marshland.
Residents said the directive had created anxiety across large neighbourhoods including Pallikaranai, Perumbakkam, Okkiyam Thoraipakkam, Perungudi and Seevaram, where lakhs of people live in approved l ...
The first division bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G Arul Murugan passed the order on the PIL filed by AIADMK legal wing office-bearer J Brezhnev.