SC goes lenient on Sethusamudram

The Supreme Court today granted another six weeks to government to apprise it of its stand on the controversial Sethusamudram project about which a high-level committee has said that an alternative alignment, other than the one through mythological Ram Sethu, is not economically and ecologically feasible. A bench of justices H L Dattu and C K Prasad gave more time to the government to make its stand on the project and posted the case for further hearing to 3 December. The case relating to Ram Sethu had come under judicial scrutiny due to a batch of petitions filed in the apex court against the ambitious Sethusamudram project, whose execution allegedly could damage the mythological bridge.