Damodar S/O Kawduji Band and Others v. Union of India Thr. Ministry of Roads Transport and Highways, Dwarka, New Delhi and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
PIL 26/2023, High Court of Bombay, Nagpur Bench; disposed as not pressed on 11.07.2025; neutral citation 2025:BHC-NAG:6622-DB; subject: sufficiency of existing National Highway bridge at Kanhan/Kamptee vis-a-vis proposed additional bridge; MoRTH feasibility study undertaken pursuant to the petition; 2018 estimates; non-feasibility due to habitation displacement and land acquisition (Cantonment Board, Railway Department, private land); bye-pass to Kanhan and Kamptee reduced NH traffic; keywords: Kanhan, Kamptee, Nagpur, additional bridge, MoRTH, land acquisition, not pressed; no statutes or precedents cited; coram Nitin W. Sambre and M.M. Nerlikar, JJ.
What did the court decide?
In view of the pleading in the affidavit filed by respondent nos.1, 3 and 4 (that the existing bridge is sufficient to cater the traffic and that the MoRTH study prompted by the petition found a new bridge non-feasible), the Court disposed of the present Public Interest Litigation as not pressed.