The Allahabad Excessive Courtroom on Wednesday directed the Municipal Commissioner and District Justice of the Peace, Prayagraj, to make sure that rainwater accrued within the metropolis’s low-lying areas is pumped out via Morri Gate, Daraganj, amid extreme waterlogging following incessant rain.
A Bench of Justice Ajit Kumar and Justice Garima Prashad handed the course whereas listening to a suo motu petition regarding waterlogging in Prayagraj.
The Bench additionally directed the Director, Native Our bodies, Authorities of Uttar Pradesh, to file an affidavit explaining the plans laid down to alleviate town from rainwater and flooding attributable to rain.
The course got here after the Municipal Commissioner, Seelam Sai Teja, submitted that difficulties had been being confronted in pumping out rainwater collected in low-lying areas via the Morri Gate and the Daraganj pipeline.
He sought an interim course as an emergency measure to facilitate the pumping out of accrued rainwater, stating that this might assist preserve the affected areas freed from flooding inside 24 to 48 hours.
The Courtroom accordingly permitted the Municipal Commissioner and directed the District Justice of the Peace to make sure that the accrued rainwater was pumped out via Morri Gate, Daraganj.
“For the reason that flood water has been collected in these areas and has entered even the homes of the residents, inflicting immense issues, together with well being hazard points to the youngsters residing within the homes, we allow the Municipal Commissioner and so direct the District Justice of the Peace to make sure that rain water collected in these low-lying areas, inflicting flood within the areas, is pumped out via Morri Gate, Daraganj“, the Courtroom noticed in its order.
The Courtroom directed {that a} report concerning the standing of the flood scenario attributable to rainwater be positioned earlier than it on August 20.
It might be famous that on Tuesday, the Excessive Courtroom intervened suo motu within the extreme waterlogging disaster in Prayagraj attributable to incessant rain.
The Courtroom had directed the District Justice of the Peace and Municipal Commissioner to look and clarify why advance measures had not been taken to forestall waterlogging, notably in low-lying areas.
The Bench had additionally directed the Secretary, City Growth and Planning, Uttar Pradesh, to file a private affidavit explaining the plans accepted to make sure that town doesn’t get waterlogged resulting from incessant rain.
The Courtroom had famous that the scenario was bringing enterprise to a halt and inflicting difficulties for Judges in reaching the Courtroom, leading to “direct interference to the administration of justice.”
Individually, Justice Siddharth Nandan had taken suo motu cognizance of the non-implementation of the coverage beneath the December 20, 2024 Authorities Order for preparation of a ‘Drainage Grasp Plan’, together with the failure of civic facilities in Prayagraj.
That continuing recorded submissions concerning extreme waterlogging in a number of components of town, together with George City, Tagore City, Allahpur, Alopibagh, Bairahna, Rambagh and Preetam Nagar. It was additionally dropped at the Courtroom’s discover that advocates and their clerks had been unable to succeed in Courtroom and that case information had been broken due to the waterlogging.
The Courtroom noticed that stopping advocates and their clerks from reaching Courtroom and the destruction of case information “instantly impacts the Administration of Justice.”
The matter has been listed for August 20, 2026.
