Publish list of polluters: HC

The High Court on Monday ordered to publish the list of the organisations or persons responsible for polluting the environment within one week through a press release and on the website of the Department of Environment (DoE).

An HC bench of Justice Md Ashfaqul Islam and Justice Mohi Uddin Shamim passed the order and asked the authorities concerned to submit a progress report on it within two weeks.

It also issued a rule asking the government to explain why the ineffectiveness of the responsible persons in publishing the names of people involved in pollution should not be declared illegal.

Secretaries to the Environment, Forest and Climate Change Ministry, Information Ministry, Directorate General of the Director General of the Department of Environment (DOE) and four others were made respondent to the rules which is returnable in four weeks.

Advocate Manzill Murshid stood for the petitioner.