In Uttar Pradesh, cases related to pollution in the Ganga river will now be heard in the National Green Tribunal (NGT) instead of the Allahabad High Court. The Allahabad High Court has released the cases going on for the last 18 years and transferred them to the NGT. NGT will now hear all the more than two dozen petitions.

The Allahabad High Court's Larger Bench, which is hearing the case related to Ganga, has given this decision on more than two dozen petitions, including the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) of Swami Hari Chaitanya Brahmachari. After the completion of the hearing, the court had reserved its judgment a few days back.

Significantly, the Allahabad High Court has been regularly hearing this matter since 2006. The first petition regarding Ganga pollution was filed by Mahant Swami Hari Chaitanya Brahmachari of Tikarmafi Ashram. After this, more than two dozen other applications were also added to this PIL.

The High Court was continuously giving instructions to the officers and the government while hearing regularly in this matter. Due to the orders of the High Court, the condition of Ganga had also improved to a great extent.

Recently, the UP government had filed an application in the Allahabad High Court and appealed to transfer all the cases to NGT i.e. National Green Tribunal. At that time, it was being alleged that the UP government wanted to transfer the matter from the High Court to the NGT to save the bureaucracy.

Today in the High Court, the Bench of Chief Justice Pritinkar Diwakar, Justice MK Gupta and Justice Ajit Kumar gave its verdict and ordered all the cases to be transferred to NGT.

The bench of the High Court has said in its decision that the NGT also has the right to hear such cases. The arguments given and all the examples presented by the UP government cannot be rejected at all. However, many petitioners have objected to this decision of the court and have asked to challenge the decision of the High Court in the Supreme Court.