{"id":87184,"date":"2020-03-05T15:04:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T09:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=14105"},"modified":"2020-03-05T15:04:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T09:34:25","slug":"hcsukhna-lake-of-chandigarh-is-legal-entity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hcsukhna-lake-of-chandigarh-is-legal-entity\/","title":{"rendered":"HC:Sukhna lake of Chandigarh is legal entity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The Punjab and Haryana High Court has declared Sukhna Lake legal entity and has ordered demolition of legal\/unauthorised constructions in its catchment area.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key takeaways from the Judgement:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sukhna Lake will now be a legal entity for its survival, preservation and conservation.<\/li><li>The court also declared all citizens of Chandigarh as loco parentis (in the place of a parent) to save the lake from extinction.<\/li><li>The court also invoked the Polluter pays principle by saying that the States should have taken precautionary measures to save the catchment of Sukhna lake.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Sukhna Lake:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sukhna Lake in Chandigarh is a reservoir at the foothills (Shivalik hills) of the Himalayas.<\/li><li>This lake was created in 1958 by Le Corbusier and the Chief Engineer P L Verma by damming the Sukhna Choe, a seasonal stream coming down from the Shivalik Hills.<\/li><li>The lake is a sanctuary for many exotic migratory birds like the Siberian duck, storks and cranes during the winter months.<\/li><li>The lake has been declared as a protected national wetland by the Government of India.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Living Entity:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A legal entity means an entity which acts like a natural person but only through a designated person whose acts are processed within the ambit of law.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Polluter Pays Principle:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The principle is enacted to make the party responsible for producing pollution responsible for paying for the damage done to the natural environment.<\/li><li>In international environmental law it is mentioned under the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development of 1992.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The Punjab and Haryana High Court has declared Sukhna Lake legal entity and has ordered demolition of legal\/unauthorised constructions in its catchment area. Facts: Key takeaways from the Judgement: Sukhna Lake will now be a legal entity for its survival, preservation and conservation. The court also declared all citizens of Chandigarh as loco parentis (in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hcsukhna-lake-of-chandigarh-is-legal-entity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HC:Sukhna lake of Chandigarh is legal entity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4929,4930],"class_list":["post-87184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-legal-entity","tag-sukhna-lake","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704938099},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}