Cyclone Gaja: HC to monitor relief activities

Days after cyclone 'Gaja' lashed the Tamil Nadu coast, the Madras High Court Tuesday orally observed that one cannot expect authorities to restore everything overnight in cyclone-hit areas but said it would monitor the relief activities.

The observation came when the court was hearing a PIL filed by advocate Rajinikanth, seeking a direction to declare the cyclonic storm as a National Disaster under the Disaster Management Act, 2005.

When the petition came up, a division bench comprising justices M Sathyanarayanan and N Seshasayee orally observed: "We cannot expect the authorities to restore the disaster caused by Gaja cyclone overnight, in any case the court would monitor the relief activities."