The division bench, moreover comprising Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharyya, directed that the tram tracks which had been illegally bituminised be restored.
The courtroom directed the Kolkata Police to conduct an inquiry into the complaints of bituminisation of the tram tracks and set up people who had accomplished so.
The courtroom had earlier directed that there shouldn’t be bituminisation of the tram tracks, nevertheless two complaints had been filed with the Kolkata Police alleging that this has been accomplished in some places.
The bench said that it’s exhausting to think about that the miscreants would have indulged in such an act with out the “blessings of the acceptable authorities”.
The courtroom directed {{that a}} report on compliance be filed sooner than it along with supporting photos inside 4 weeks, after which the matter may be heard as soon as extra.
“Closing down the tram suppliers is an easy exercise, nevertheless nonetheless the respondent, being a welfare state, additionally must deliberate to guard the cultural heritage of city of Kolkata,” the bench seen.
The bench further said that when the West Bengal authorities has formed a separate wing to guard the heritage buildings inside the metropolis, it fails to know why such a thought course of is simply not occurring so far as trams are concerned.
The courtroom said that there are completely different worldwide places the place trams are operated, along with Switzerland and identically, as in Kolkata, these tram tracks moreover go by way of the middle of the roads there.
The bench well-known that this was cited as one in every of many causes by the Kolkata Police that it’s resulting in accidents and that this stand was reiterated by the state’s Advocate Regular all through his pleadings.
