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Pollution Madras HC asks aluminium sheet making unit to check pollution Our Legal Correspondent
Chennai , Feb. 25 The Madras High Court has issued a warning to an aluminium sheet manufacturing unit in a Chennai suburb that if it failed to take action to contain pollution in the area, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) would be free to take suitable action to curb health hazard that had been caused to the inhabitants of the locality. The firm, IMT Alloys, located in Madhavaram, had preferred a writ petition to quash the proceedings initiated by the TNPCB to control pollution alleged to have been caused by the unit. It also tendered an affidavit undertaking to take necessary steps. On behalf of a local residents welfare body, Victory Fields Residents' Welfare Association, which was allowed to implead in the case, its counsel, Mr K. Muralidharan, suggested that the factory should be asked to provide scrubber to the 6 bale out furnaces installed in the unit. The First Bench, consisting of the Chief Justice Mr A.P. Shah and Mrs Justice Prabha Sridevan, held that if the petitioner failed to provide scrubber to the 6 bale out furnaces within three months as per the undertaking, it should forthwith dismantle the said bale out furnaces. In case of failure of the petitioner to comply with this direction, the Pollution Control Board would be free to take suitable action against the petitioner including revocation of the consent granted in favour of the petitioner. The Bench also said that the Board was free to carry out the ambient air quality survey of the factory in accordance with the regulations and take appropriate steps in accordance with law.
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