K'taka govt gets 2 weeks to reply to objections on not providing graveyards in villages

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: The High Court of Karnataka directed the government to get back in two weeks on the objections raised by petitioners over steps taken as directed by the court to provide land for dignified and traditional cremation/burials in villages of the state.

The court continued to hear a civil contempt petition filed by Muhammad Iqbal, a resident of Bengaluru, on Wednesday.

The petitioner had objected to the government's failure to comply with the High Court's earlier judgement to provide necessary land to villages and towns without graveyards in the state.

The division bench of Justices P S Dinesh Kumar and T G Shivashankare Gowda, after hearing the argument for some time, adjourned the proceedings and directed the state to give an explanation within two weeks to the objections raised by the petitioner regarding the compliance report of the government.

On August 20, 2019, the High Court had ordered that all the populated villages in the state should be allotted cemetery land for cremation and the encroached government land should be cleared.

The contempt petition states that the government had failed to comply with the order