SC allows Oil India to file plea on rejection of drilling at national park
The Supreme Court on Wednesday permitted Oil India to withdraw an interlocutory application and file a fresh plea seeking to overturn the rejection of its proposal by the Centre for Extended Reach Drilling (ERD) linked to hydrocarbon extraction beneath Assam's Dibru-Saikhowa National Park.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana was urged by senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi, appearing for Oil India, that the plea was extremely urgent and be listed for hearing.
"This is extremely urgent because the area is on the fringes of a national park.
All permissions have been granted, but the government considers itself bound by a 2023 order of this court banning mining.
This is not mining.
The pipeline is being laid outside the park.
It goes 4,000 metres underground and then proceeds horizontally," Dwivedi said.
He said the application has been filed in a pending case titled TN Godavarman Thirumulpad vs Union of India of 1995, a landmark piece of ..
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