Kochi: The Kerala High Court has observed that an order for police protection cannot be granted to enable a person to pollute the atmosphere, water or soil, oppress the general public and make their life miserable.
An order for police protection cannot be granted to deny the constitutional rights and civil rights of citizens and take away the vested rights of neighbouring inhabitants and agriculturists, the court observed.
The court issued the order on a petition filed by a Palakkad native R. Vinod seeking police protection to his life, workers in the plantation run by him and to the vehicles bringing organic manure to the plantation at Kalliyampara at Muthalamada. The Muthalamada grama panchayat through Shyam J. Sam, a green activist, impleaded in the petition and argued that police protection should not be granted. He informed that the materials transported by the petitioner as nutrisoil was not manure but only industrial chemical waste containing heavy metals like mercury. The Muthalamada panchayat submitted that the petitioner had suppressed material facts.
Some people in the locality had obstructed the bringing of organic manure to the property, the petitioner stated.
