Youngster on way to work dies as vehicle collides with his scooter on NH 66 at Mukka
Surathkal: In a road accident that reportedly occurred on the National Highway 66, Ganesh Devadiga, a 27-year-old youngster from Indiranagar in Haleyangadi, died as a vehicle hit his two-wheeler at the Mukka Junction on Thursday morning.
Ganesh, who was employed at the Panambur port, was traveling to work on his two-wheeler at around 7 am on Thursday. At Mukka Junction, he slowed his vehicle seeing the barricades on the road there, but the speeding vehicle behind him rammed into the youngster’s scooter.
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Ganesh reportedly sustained serious injuries due to the collision and was taken immediately to a private hospital but the doctors at the hospital declared that he was already dead.
Mangaluru (North Division) Traffic Police have registered a case and investigation is underway regarding the road accident resulting in Ganesh’s death.
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Suburban rail project: HC halts axing of 368 trees at Bengaluru Cantonment
Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has ordered that no trees should be cut or damaged on over eight acres of land near Cantonment Railway Station, where a suburban rail project has been proposed, The New Indian Express reported on Thursday.
The order was reportedly issued by a division bench of Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice CM Poonacha after hearing a PIL filed by former MLA AT Ramaswamy and three others. Notices were issued to the state government, central government, Karnataka Biodiversity Board and the tree officer.
Countering the apprehension expressed by the counsel for petitioners over the move to axe trees, the Additional Solicitor General of India (on behalf of the Centre), submitted that the state has rightly withdrawn the notification as it was issued without consulting the Centre.
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Also, the petition is premature as the application has been made to the tree officer seeking permission to cut trees for the suburban rail project on the land in question, he said.
The petitioners reportedly said the land is an old green space with 371 large trees and forms part of the Cantonment Railway Station area. They argued that a public notice was issued in April inviting objections to the plan to remove 368 trees for the suburban rail project.
The notice stated that the commercial development project will come up on the land measuring 34,856 sq mts, which has been leased to a private company.
They also pointed out that the state government had earlier decided to declare the area a biodiversity heritage site, but the notification was withdrawn in December without explanation.
They termed the decision atrocious and the reasons given absurd. The petitioners alleged that, “It is very clear that all is not well with the state, which has taken a retrograde decision, though it is a matter of grave concern, which will have an adverse impact on Bengaluru’s environment.”
