Team Blitz India
NEW DELHI: The Bombay High Court has directed municipal corporations and municipal councils in the state to file affidavits explaining action against those who put up illegal banners and hoardings and whose photos are displayed on them. A division bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Arif Doctor said it was surprised when the Government pleader expressed helplessness and voiced his inability to keep a tab on every illegal banner and hoarding, saying that it should be tackled at local level.
The submission came when the court was hearing a batch of public interest litigations on the issue of illegal banners, hoardings and posters put up by political parties across the state in public places.
The court had on January 30, 2017, directed the state Government and all municipal corporations to ensure that illegal hoardings are not put up in public places.
The Maharashtra government had even enacted the Defacement Act and the Aurangabad bench had directed authorities to initiate action against those whose names and photos are displayed on the illegal banners and hoardings, Uday Warunjkar, advocate for the petitioners, informed the court.
