{"id":30739,"date":"2013-06-24T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=30739"},"modified":"2015-05-06T09:00:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T08:00:15","slug":"hc-notice-to-govt-for-withdrawal-of-cases-against-anti-nuclear-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/06\/hc-notice-to-govt-for-withdrawal-of-cases-against-anti-nuclear-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"HC Notice to Govt for Withdrawal of Cases against Anti-Nuclear Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Madras High Court on Tuesday [11 June 2013] ordered issue of notice to Tamil Nadu Government asking why steps were not taken to withdraw cases filed against anti-nuclear activists protesting against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project.<\/p>\n<p>First Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Kumar Agrawal and Justice M. Sathyanarayanan, ordered notice to the state government and sought reply within three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The notice was issued on a petition which sought a direction to the state government to withdraw all criminal cases filed against anti-nuclear activists, who have been protesting against the Indo-Russian project in Tirunelveli District.<\/p>\n<p>The petition referred to the Supreme Court\u2019s direction to the state government to withdraw all criminal cases against the protestors.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/hc-notice-to-govt-for-withdrawal-of-cases-against-antinuclear-activists\/article4825993.ece\" >Go to Original \u2013 thehindu.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Madras High Court on Tuesday [11 June 2013] ordered issue of notice to Tamil Nadu Government asking why steps were not taken to withdraw cases filed against anti-nuclear activists protesting against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,68,56,147,180,139,146,198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-weapons-of-mass-destruction","category-asia-pacific","category-energy","category-brics","category-justice","category-economics","category-kudankulam-anti-nuclear-satyagraha-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}