The Supreme Court today sought a response from the Adani Group of Companies, the Central Government and others on a petition seeking to stall work at the former’s Rs 7,400-crore multi-product Special Economic Zone in Gujarat.
A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan issued a notice to Adani Group, the ministries of Commerce and Environment and Forests, Mundra Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd, Gujarat government, Gujarat Pollution Control Board and others and tagged the petition with another similar plea filed by the fishermen of Gujarat.
Mundra SEZ, established under the SEZ Act of 2005, is proposed to come up in about 6,000 acre of land in Gujarat’s Kutch district.