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Supreme Court orders to squash parking lots around Taj Mahal today

Supreme Court orders to squash parking lots around Taj Mahal today

Supreme Court on Monday ordered to squash parking lot around Taj Majal in Agra today. As per the reports, the order against the parking lots come over in the wake of environmental hazard that Taj Mahal is facing because of pollution or environment issues. The Supreme Court pronounced the verdict today said that the lawyer appearing for the Archaeological Survey of India observed that Taj Mahal areas are facing environmental hazard. The SC verdict of demolishing parking lots come after the environmental hazard such as cutting of trees for extending parking lots in the areas.

As per the reports, the Supreme Court in August on an earlier Ocassion asked the government that whether they want to destroy the world famous Taj Mahal. This verdict came after the apex court hearing on the application seeking to cut over 400 trees to lay down the additional railway track between Uttar Pradesh to Delhi near Mathura.

However, the Taj Mahal doesn’t face such problems the bench comprising of Justice Madan B lokur and Deepak Gupta said If you want, then file an application and write that the Union of India wants to destroy the Taj. MC Mehta the environmentalist filed petition that has been monitoring development in the area to protect the historic Taj Mahal which was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan for her wife Mumtaz in 1631.

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