The Supreme Court on Tuesday, 19 May, declined to interfere with the interim order passed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) regarding the Vizag Gas Leak.
On 8 May, the NGT had issued an interim order regarding the gas leak at the LG Polymers plant in Visakhapatnam the day before. In the order, the tribunal had directed the company to pay Rs 50 crores as compensation immediately, and it also set up a five-member committee headed by retired Andhra Pradesh High Court judge B Seshayana Reddy, to inquire into the incident, which claimed 11 lives.
LG Polymers approached the Supreme Court to challenge the NGT taking cognizance of the issue even though the Andhra Pradesh High Court had already done so, and also to challenge the setting up of this committee, as the high court and central government had also set up their own inquiry committees.