HC to examine whether MCD's carcass plant being used by pvt co

Delhi High Court today decided to examine whether an animal carcass rendering plant at Gazipur, set up by the municipal corporation for Rs 25 crore, was being used for private purposes leading to wasteage of public money.
The decision by a bench of justices B D Ahmed and Ashutosh Kumar came on a plea filed by a company in 2011 alleging that the plant was given by MCD to a private entity without any cost for conducting its business.
The MCD contended that as the petitioner company, Rameshwary Envirotech Animal Resource Pvt Ltd, was an "interested party" - it had participated in the tender for using the plant and lost. The corporation had contended that the matter could not be treated as a public interest litigation.

The bench, thereafter, deleted the company from the list of parties and appointed an amicus curiae to assist the court in the matter and listed it for hearing on October 26.
Rameshwary Envirotech Animal Resource Pvt Ltd had contended in its plea that the company which had succeeded in the tender process was using the entire plant as its personal property which amounted to "frittering away" of public money.