The High Court heard a PIL filed against the dumping of non-vegetarian food and feces and urine from floating huts and floating restaurants into the holy Ganga in Tehri district.

The division bench of Acting Chief Justice Justice Manoj Kumar Tiwari and Justice Vivek Bharti Sharma did it.

The division bench has asked the petitioner to make the State Pollution Board and the restaurant spreading dirt parties to the case. The next hearing in the case has been fixed for December 28.

A resident of Swargashram district, Pauri Garhwal, has filed a PIL saying that the state government has given permission to run floating huts and floating restaurants on the Ganga in Tehri to promote tourism, but this permission is being misused. After preparing non-vegetarian food in many restaurants, its waste is being dumped in the holy Ganga. Not only this, but excreta from floating huts is also being dumped.

It has also been said in the petition that the license given by the state government to promote tourism is playing with the sentiments of lakhs of Sanatanis.

Sanatani people worship Ganga before taking a bath, take off their slippers and shoes, and take a bath.

The petitioner sent a letter to the District Magistrate, Central Government, and the Chief Secretary asking for a ban on this, but no action was taken on it.