The Supreme Court on Monday sought replies from all authorities
concerned in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh regarding “in what form and where
they discharged industrial waste and other effluents”.
“It is a very unhappy state of affairs. It is very unfortunate
that such a serious matter about a river is being dealt with such
casualness by all authorities of different state governments. You are
treating it like a tree and not like a river. Yamuna is polluted to the
core now,” said a bench of Justices A K Patnaik and Swatanter Kumar.
Infuriated that all the authorities were engaged only in pushing
the burden on each other and filed “vague” affidavits to explain their
stands, the bench said that it was giving the last opportunity to the
Delhi and UP governments, besides their authorities like Delhi Jal Board
(DJB), Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and Noida Authority, to
file affidavits in categorical terms to apprise the court if they were
dumping effluents in Yamuna and if so, in what form — with or without
treatment.
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