Srinagar, March 13 -- "As we have identified three issues to be given priority in consideration of the matters in this PIL, we would expect the respondent authorities to give their views, suggestions with the relevant documentation concerning these issues within a period of two weeks," said a division bench of Chief Justice N. Kotiswar Singh and Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal while hearing a Public Interest Litigation filed in 2002 by then law student seeking directions to safe the water body.

By virtue of order on 24 September 2021, the Court had identified certain specific issues which it said require attention, namely: cleanliness of Dal Lake; flow of sewage and liquid waste into it; solid waste management in and around the lake; the resp...