The Nainital High Court, after hearing the 2013 Kedarnath disaster case, has asked the Wadia Institute Dehradun which scientific methods can be used to find the bodies of the missing people in the disaster. The court has given instructions to file the answer within a week. Apart from this, the case was heard by video conferencing before the bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and Justice RC Khulbe. According to the case, Delhi resident Ajay Gautam filed a PIL in the High Court, saying that after the 2013 disaster in Kedarnath, about 4200 people were missing from the Kedar Valley. The skeletons of 600 of them were recovered. The petition said that 3600 people are still buried in Kedarghati after the disaster, which the government is not doing any work to remove.
The petitioner said that the government should take this matter seriously and get the bodies removed from Kedarghati and get them cremated. After hearing the parties, the High Court bench has directed the Wadia Institute Dehradun to file the reply in a week. After hearing the PIL, a date has been fixed for next week for the next hearing of the case. The case was heard by video conferencing before the bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and Justice RC Khulbe. Rajya Sabha member Subramanian Swamy had filed a PIL in the High Court stating that the Devasthanam Board Act brought by the state government for the management of the Chardham temples is unconstitutional.
The government's management of Chardham and 51 other temples through the Devasthanam Board is a violation of Articles 25 and 26 of the Constitution. The petition said that after this decision of the government, there is a great rage among the priests of the affected religious places and temples. Subrahmanyam Swamy said that some states like Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Maharashtra had also taken similar decisions in the past, against whom they had filed petitions in the Supreme Court and won. He also said that many decisions of the Supreme Court are already in this case. It has also prayed in the petition that the government should not take any further action until a decision is reached from the court. After the hearing of the parties, the bench of the High Court has fixed a date for a week later for the next hearing on the matter.
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