Press Reporter News Service
Chandigarh, October 17
The Punjab and Haryana Excessive Courtroom has ordered the upkeep of established order concerning set up/affixing of poles and overhead telecom cables. The instructions got here after the Bench was advised that Jio Digital Fibre Personal Restricted had been granted permission to put overhead telecom cables in Sectors 24 and 25, Panchkula.
The course by Justice Karamjit Singh got here on a petition filed in opposition to the Panchkula Municipal Company and different respondents by the Citizen Committee Home Proprietor’s Welfare Affiliation by means of counsel Prashant Gupta. The petitioner had challenged an order dated January 3, whereby respondents-MC had given permission to respondent-Jio to put overhead telecom cables operating into 14,250 meters in Sectors 24 and 25.
Gupta submitted the permission was granted to respondent firm in opposition to the “Communication and Connectivity Infrastructure Coverage of the Authorities of Haryana” framed in 2017. He additional submitted that laying of overhead cables on poles particularly erected for the aim was to be discouraged as per the coverage.
Issuing discover of movement for November 26, Justice Karamjit Singh asserted: “Within the meantime, established order concerning set up/affixing of poles and overhead telecom cables be maintained, as on immediately”.