HC notice to Centre, TN on preserving glory of Mamallapuram

A Madras High Court bench has issued notices to the Central and the Tamil Nadu governments over the tourist town of Mamallapuram becoming a "dirty place" again, a month after it was cleaned and spruced for the summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Treating the note of Justice N Kirubakaran as a PIL, the second bench of the High Court, headed by Justice Vineet Kothari, on its own issued notices to both the governments, returnable by December 11.

Justice Kirubakaran, who wrote a detailed note to the second bench about preservation of the ancient monuments in Mamallapuram, referred to the recent summit attended by the Modi and Xi, saying the entire town had been made sparking clean and decked up for the meet.

But after the summit concluded, it was seen from newspaper reports that people thronged the town and littered the entire area, which has not been cleaned up, "bringing back the very old position, making it a dirty place."