The National Green Bench on May 3 asked the electricity board official present in court why it had not disconnected the power lines of the hotels which made unauthorised constructions in Kasauli, in Himachal Pradesh, even after other authorities had asked them to disconnect the lines.

When the officer sought pardon, the court ordered that the power lines would have to be cut by May 4, or the “bench will impose cost directly on the chairman of electricity board.”

The bench will hear the hotels matter on May 26, while from May 4 the various authorities will be heard for their failure till date to take appropriate measures on the illegally constructed hotels.

Matter will come up again on May 4.

—India Legal Bureau