The Madhya Pradesh High Court has these days found that simply because borewells did now not yield water, it would no longer suggest that there is corruption or different allegation towards the State whilst brushing aside a petition.
The Petition has been filed by using one Balchand Shinde, a resident of Burhanpur.
The data of the remember is that there is an acute shortage of water therein. A company was once awarded the contract for the drilling of normal and gravel packed tubewells of the dimension targeted therein. Even even though the borewells had been dug, they did no longer yield any water and, in some cases, solely minimal water used to be obtained. The hassle of acute scarcity of water continues. The Lokayukta, Bhopal once knew about the irregularities concerning the contract however no motion has been taken. Hence, the petitioner approached the High Court.
Pranay Choubey, the information for the petitioner, contended that there has been a wrongful award of contract. In more than a few places, the borewells had been dug and it did now not yield any water. Therefore, indispensable motion is taken towards the State, its officers as nicely as the individual who bagged the contract.
On listening to the advice for the petitioner, the Division Bench of Chief Justice Ravi Malimath and Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav did now not discover any advantage in the petition.
The Bench held that the query of acquiring water via drilling a borewell is no longer a 100/% correct position. The existence of underground water is a rely on chance. Even although some tools might also be used for the cause of figuring out the same, the reality stays that the success fee in acquiring water thru borewells is limited.
“If at all, everybody is conscious of the place the water exists, then a borewell would be dug at that area itself. Only due to the fact the dug borewells had been unsuccessful does it no longer suggest that there is any corruption or different allegation in opposition to the State,” the Court located whilst disposing of the petition.