The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the plea of Uttarakhand government seeking vacation of its order staying further construction activities there and observed that the states have rushed to the court as the builders may have "gone after them".
A bench of Justices Madan B Lokur, S Abdul Nazeer and Deepak Gupta also allowed the prayer of Maharashtra government seeking a clarification that there was no stay on construction activity in that state.
The apex court had on August 31 castigated some states and union territories for their "pathetic" attitude in not framing a solid waste management policy as per the 2016 Rules on the issue and stayed construction activities till they brought it out.
It had slapped a cost of Rs three lakh each on Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand and the union territory of Chandigarh.
It had also imposed a cost of Rs five lakh on Andhra Pradesh for not filing an affidavit as per the court's July 10 direction and observed that even the Centre was not aware whether the state had framed the policy.
At the hearing today, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Chandigarh also moved the apex court on the issue, which led the bench to observe: "All the builders must have gone after you after our order (staying further construction)."
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