P. Wilson Senior Advocate made a mentioning before Hon’ble Acting Chief Justice Bench of Madras High Court to move a urgent Writ Petition challenging the Dam Safety Act . Mr Wilson submitted that the Writ petition is

P. Wilson Senior Advocate made a mentioning before Hon’ble Acting Chief Justice Bench of Madras High Court to move a urgent Writ Petition challenging the Dam Safety Act . Mr Wilson submitted that the Writ petition is challenging the Vires of the Dam Safety Act 2021 On various grounds including that the Parliament has no legislative competence to legislate the Act which is in State’s Domain. He submitted that the Act has effect of the taking control over all major Dams in the state and that Union is taking steps to constitute National committee on Dam safety and National Dam safety authority whereupon the states will be completely denuded with the control over Dams located inside and outside the States covered under the Act. Acceding to the request of P. Wilson, the Hon’ble first bench of Madras High Court has permitted to move on 10.1.2022.
Mr S Ramalingam DMK MP is the Petitioner in the Writ Petition