The Ballery Iron Ore Private Limited, one of the six mining companies in Obulapuram area, on Thursday raised certain issues related to the overlapping of its mining lease with Reddy brothers’ Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC).
Seeking to bring it completely under the May 10 order for fresh demarcation and mining simultaneously, its counsel Krishnan Venugopal raised certain technical grounds on the issue while OMC lawyer Mukul Rohtagi opposed it.
A bench, headed by Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia, permitted Mr Venugopal to file an application for transfer of the case to the forest bench, which would deal with it if it was so warranted.
The court said the matter would be heard in July after summer vacation on these aspects.
The court also allowed Mr Rohtagi to show from the record that whether the dispute between OMC and the Ballery Iron Ore was referred to in the May 10 order.
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PIL for LTTE chief mother’s TN treatment
Age Correspondent
New Delhi
May 13: A prominent lawyer from Chennai on Thursday moved the SC for a direction to the Centre to immediately allow slain LTTE chief Vellupillai Prabhakaran’s ailing mother Parvathi Ammal to have medical treatment in India.
Former Madras HC Advocate Association president R. Karuppan, who filed the special leave petition, said, it is scheduled to be listed for hearing on Friday.
According to Mr Karuppan, he had raised an important question relating to visa regulations as well as human rights in the petition after the Indian authorities had not allowed Parvathi to land in Chennai on April 16 when she came for treatment. “She was not allowed to set her feet on the Indian soil but forcibly deported rendering the valid visa a nullity,” Mr Karuppan said.