The Madhya Pradesh High Court has cautioned that having “unflinching faith” in the engineering prowess of the state may be an “invitation to disaster,” as it directed the state government to explore alternate sites for disposing of residual ash from the incinerated Bhopal Gas Tragedy waste.

A Division Bench comprising Justice Atul Sreedharan and Justice Pradeep Mittal expressed deep apprehension about the state’s chosen location for containing the residual ash from the incineration of toxic waste from the UCC factory site. The Bench observed that “new roads are washed away in rains and bridges collapse and, worse still, when railway overbridges are constructed with a right-angle turn, reducing this state to a laughingstock nationwide.”

The court had earlier directed the state to identify

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