The Telangana high court on Tuesday directed the state not to conduct any public hearing related to the expansion of coal mining activity at Ramagundam near Godavarikhani area.
The bench of Chief Justice Hima Kohli and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy discouraged a state counsel who tried to obtain the permission of the court to go ahead with the public hearing. The bench told him that this is not the right time to take up such work. Shreyas Reddy, the counsel for a petitioner who opposed the hearing, urged the court not to allow the hearing. The bench turned to advocate general BS Prasad and told him to instruct the officials not to take up any public hearing during the pandemic. “No congregation of people can be allowed. If such a thing happens, you will have us to deal with,” it said.
