The high court of Odisha has ordered a five-member committee to revisit the area in Jagatpur where the JSW Steel Plant project is held and make an assessment of the ground situation.
A division bench of the High Court, comprising Chief Justice S Muralidhar and Justice R K Patnaik, directed the committee to visit the village on March 5 and submit its report on March 8. The bench set the next hearing of the case on March 11.
The High Court issued the order after the committee members on Wednesday submitted four reports separately of their last visit to Dhinkia. The bench observed the villagers could not interact with the committee members freely last time due to some incidents.
In order to facilitate the villagers, including the project supporters and those opposing it, to express their views freely and without fear, the committee, comprising lawyers of three petitioners and two government advocates, should meet them again amid adequate security, it added.
