NHAI chief to be present in court on next hearing: HC

Taking a strong note of the absence of any representative on behalf of the National Highway Authority of India in the ongoing case of completion of National Highway...

Taking a strong note of the absence of any representative on behalf of the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) in the ongoing case of completion of National Highway (NH-22), the Punjab and Haryana High Court today directed the NHAI Chairman to be present in the Court on the next date of hearing.

The directions were passed after the court took exception to the fact that nobody was representing the NHAI for the last two hearings.

The directions were passed in the wake of a petition filed by Harish Kumar Puri. The HC had then directed the NHAI to furnish a detailed plan of the Pinjore-Kalka-Parwanoo bypass.

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Though the NHAI had submitted a plan, the High Court has directed it to furnish a plan again, as the one submitted earlier was not clear.

The authority had also been directed to remove the encroachments on the Pinjore and Kalka road. It had also been directed to file the progress reports of the various projects being constructed by the same.

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