HC sets ultimatum for releasing draft report on elephant corridor

Court says will notify corridor as per report of the expert panel if state fails to do so by Feb

- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Chennai

A special bench of the Madras High Court hearing forest-related cases on Friday issued an ultimatum to the state government for releasing the final draft report on the elephant corridors in the Western Ghats and said the court may have to notify the corridor if the government fails to do so by February.

As per the schedule for preparing the draft report, it should have been done by October and the public hearing should have been completed by November-December but no such activities were carried out, said the bench comprising justices N Sathish Kumar and D Bharatha Chakravarthy while hearing a petition seeking declaration of the elephant corridors.