The Chhattisgarh High Court dismissed as withdrawn a Public Interest Litigation filed seeking direction to the respondents to follow in letter and spirit the Guidelines (Format For Preparation of Village Relocation Plan from Core/Critical Tiger Habitats, February 2008 issued by the National Tiger Conservation Authority, New Delhi).
The PIL filed by one Nitin Singhvi further prayed for direction to the respondent authorities to take immediate steps towards expediting the relocation process and complete the relocation of all the villages situated in the core area within a period of 6 months.
The Petitioner also prayed to direct the respondents to submit a time-bound relocation plan of all villages situated inside the core area of the Achanakmar Tiger Reserve.
Surya Kawalkar Dangi, counsel for the petitioner, seeks permission of the Court to withdraw the present petition with a liberty to file an appropriate application in the PIL of 2021, which is pending before the High Court on the same subject.
In view of the submission made by the counsel for the petitioner, the Division Bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Arvind Kumar Verma , dismissed as withdrawn the Petition with the aforesaid liberty, as prayed for.