New Delhi, Feb. 13 -- The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed a penalty of Rs.10,000 each on the Delhi government, the Delhi Fire Services (DFS) and the southwest Delhi district magistrate for failing to appear before it or submit reports in response to a plea filed by a woman who alleged gas build-up in the sewerage network in Uttam Nagar led to her husband's death last year.
"Such deliberate non-appearance can be remediated only by an order imposing costs for unnecessary adjournment," said NGT on February 7. NGT was hearing a plea filed by Ram Wati Soni, whose husband Mangat Ram died in April 2024 in an explosion inside their home. The plea stated the blast was intense and the street outside the house under which the sewer line was...