An interlocutory application (IA) filed before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) by activist Ashish Kothari has sought full disclosure of a report of the Centre’s high-powered committee (HPC), which examined deficiencies in the clearances granted to the Great Nicobar Island mega-infrastructure project, and has also questioned the government’s stance of keeping the report secret.

The plea alleged that the Centre’s stance to keep the report confidential due to strategic and privileged information was a “convenient claim to escape judicial scrutiny of their actions” and was contrary to facts.

The IA, filed in an ongoing matter in which Kothari has challenged alleged environmental violations in the project’s clearances, states that the Environment Ministry’s refusal to share a copy of the re

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