HC Fines 2 Petitioners Rs 20K For Suppressing Key Facts

The High Court of J&K and Ladakh has imposed Rs 20,000 as costs on two petitioners for "not coming with clean hands and suppressing material facts" while challenging the construction of a 33 KV transmission line, which they claimed was being laid through private land and running dangerously close to the rooftops of residential houses in Pattan area of north Kashmir's Baramulla district.

- M Ahmad

The petitioners had stated in their plea that there was life threat to all the residents and that as per the prevailing guidelines a minimum clearance of 3.7 meters was