{"id":308345,"date":"2023-04-14T13:43:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T08:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/?p=308345"},"modified":"2023-04-14T13:43:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T08:13:29","slug":"kerala-high-court-construction-kelithode-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/constitutional-law-news\/courts-news\/kerala-high-court-construction-kelithode-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala High Court directs respondents to complete construction of Kelithode bridge soon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Kerala High Court directed the respondents to complete the construction of Kelithode (Aramana) Bridge, as expeditiously as possible, but within the scheduled period of one year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Division Bench of Chief Justice S.Manikumar and Justice Murali Purushothaman disposed a Petitions filed by the Pertitioner aggrieved by the immediate closing of Kelithode \u201cAramana\u201d bridge on 16.09.2022 without sufficient notice and the inaction of the respondents to construct temporary divergent road and commencing construction of the aforesaid bridge, even after the passage of six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kelithode \u201cAramana\u201d bridge is located in one of the busiest Sub National Highways, which serves the only route, connecting the places Pudukkad to Pazhayi, Urakam, Thottipal, Thriprayar, Irinjalakuda, Cherpu and many other important places. The said bridge is located in the busiest route in the Sub National Highways connecting Pudukkad region to Irinjalakuda, Thriprayar and Thrissur and other places mentioned above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is submitted that the aforesaid bridge is more than 60 years old and its bad condition had already been reported by the Assistant Executive Engineer (Bridges), Public Works Department, Thrissur. On 16.09.2022, considering the dangerous condition of the aforesaid bridge, it was closed and only two wheelers and three wheeler autorikshaws were allowed. For the last six months, there is no step whatsoever taken by the respondents to commence the construction of bridge. Even after the nearby land owners had given consent to give their property for temporary divergent road, no efforts were taken by the respondents to construct the divergent road as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is further submitted that as of now, all the barricades and blockages are being removed and many cars, four wheelers and mini trucks are commencing their service through the bridge, which is creating a dangerous situation to the lives of the people. According to the petitioners, the respondents had completely stopped the bus service through this route, which is causing great amount of financial loss and hardship to the people in the locality. Though Exhibit P2 representation has been submitted, no positive measures have been taken by the respondents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the petitions were taken up on 06.02.2023, 06.03.2023 and 20.03.2023, the Court directed the respondents to file their statement\/counter affidavit, as the case may be, with supporting documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In response to the same, the Assistant Executive Engineer (Bridges), Public Works Department, Thrissur , has filed a statement dated 28.03.2023, which reads thus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“\u2026. the statement dated 10.01.2023 wherein the factual background in which construction of new bridge has been proposed and details regarding administrative sanction etc. were stated. It was further averred that the construction of diversion road will be commenced only on getting administrative sanction and selection notice is issued to the contractor by the Superintending Engineer, PWD bridges North circle, Kozhikode. In para 11 of the same statement it was submitted that plying of heavy vehicles are barred and the barricade along with the bridge were caused to be damaged and removed which was duly reported to the District Collector, Thrissur and police authorities. It is submitted that administrative sanction for the work has been issued by the Government as per G.O (Rt)No.17\/2023\/PWD dated 07.01.2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From the above counter affidavit, the High Court deduced that construction of the divergent road has been completed and the same has been opened for traffic on 11.03.2023 and that the Department has stated before this court that all possible measures for completing the construction of the bridge would be taken, at the earliest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Kerala High Court directed the respondents to complete the construction of Kelithode (Aramana) Bridge, as expeditiously as possible, but within the scheduled period of one year. The Division Bench of Chief Justice S.Manikumar and Justice Murali Purushothaman disposed a Petitions filed by the Pertitioner aggrieved by the immediate closing of Kelithode \u201cAramana\u201d bridge on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[246,61707],"tags":[117645,123698,125320,1623,125321],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/IL\/uploads\/2020\/12\/18123808\/kerala-high-court.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}