18 held in Gr. Noida for flouting NGT norms
Noida, Dec. 8: Eighteen people were arrested in Gautam Buddh Nagar’s Greater Noida Saturday for allegedly violating the National Green Tribunal’s orders on checking air pollution, officials said.
This is the first such action in Delhi- National Capital Region in which arrests have been made at construction sites where material was found uncovered and dust was blowing, they said. A team of subdivisional magistrate, Dadri, Anjani Kumar Singh, Police Circle Officer, Bisrakh, Nishank Sharma and officials of the Central Pollution Control Board carried out inspections at the construction sites where dust was blowing in violation of the NGT orders, the district administration said.
“Eighteen people were arrested under Section 151 — of the Environment ( Protection) Act, 1986 — and have been sent to jail,” it said in a statement.
The accused were arrested from the sites of Galaxy Builders in Sector 4, Town Central, PKS group in Sector 16B, an under construction Bharat Petroleum filling statuin opposite Ecotech 12 and an illegal crushing/ grinding unit from Sector- 2, it said.
District Magistrate, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Brajesh Narain Singh said similar action would continue further against those violating the guidelines and orders of the Supreme Court, the Central government and the NGT.
The NGT had last month ordered a temporary ban on construction in NCR.