The Telangana High Court refused to hear a PIL on Godavari river pollution, ruling that the issue falls under the jurisdiction of the National Green Tribunal. The Court directed the petitioner, a law student, to approach the NGT for appropriate relief

Hyderabad: Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice GM Mohiuddin of the Telangana High Court on Wednesday declined to entertain a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed over increasing pollution in the Godavari river , observing that the matter falls squarely within the jurisdiction of the National Green Tribunal (NGT).

The Bench was dealing with a PIL filed by Aakula Sampath Kumar, a law student, who relied on a report of the Ministry of Jal Shakti’s National River Conservation Directorate highlighting that both industrial and urb

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