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Garbage dump: HC orders inspection of site by pollution control board NT Legal Correspondent Panaji Feb 6: The division bench of the Bombay High Court today ordered the member secretary of the pollution control board to visit the site (near Green Park Hotel, Mapusa) to inspect a complaint on dumping of garbage and asked him to submit the report within three days. Mr Justice R M S Khandeparkar and Mr Justice N A Britto passed the order on public interest litigation filed by Mr Florian Lobo, a resident of Moira. The division bench has asked the member secretary of the pollution control board to visit the site during low tide along with the chief officer and secretary of respective panchayat and representative of Captain of Ports. The High Court has also sought the report with photographs. It was brought to the notice of the court that garbage was being dumped in the rivulet across the national highway-17 near the Green Park Hotel. Mr Florian Lobo had written a letter to the High Court mentioning that there was dumping of garbage by trucks across the NH-17 from Bastora. -- Salaam ali kum. Gabe Menezes. London, England
