NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today stayed the Uttarakhand High Court verdict according the status of “living human entities” to Ganga and Yamuna, two of India’s major rivers.
A bench of Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice D Y Chandrachud passed the order on Uttarakhand Government’s plea against the high court’s March 20 judgement, which said “Holy rivers Ganga and Yamuna have been declared to be treated as a living human entities.”
The high court verdict had come on a PIL of Haridwar resident Mohammad Salim over mining and stone crushing along the banks of the Ganga.
The high court had also ordered the Dehradun District Magistrate (DM) to remove encroachments from the Shakti canal of the Ganga at Dhakrani within 72 hours, failing which the DM would be suspended. (AGENCIES)
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