Madras HC restrains a resident of T.V.K. nagar in Sembium from running laundry at home.
Chennai: The Madras HC restrained a resident of T.V.K. nagar in Sembium from running a dhobikhana (laundry) at his residence, causing serious health hazard and hardship to other residents of the area.
Justice K.K. Sasidharan granted the interim injunction and posted to December 13 further hearing of the petition filed by T. William Moses.
According to the petitioner, the Tamil Nadu housing board had sold the entire house in T.V.K. nagar on lease-cum-sale basis. TNHB had postulated the condition that the purchaser of the house shall not indulge in transferring, sub-letting or mortgaging the property to any third party. However, his neighbour K. Chandrasekar, though contemplated to dwell there slowly started establishing a dhobikhana.
Without licence or permission from the Chennai corporation, he had been illegally running a dhobikhana in a residential area. He had dug two borewells, and was using chemicals for washing clothes, and this was creating irritation in the eyes of neighbours besides rashes all over the body.
On a representation from the petitioner, the corporation sealed the dhobikhana. There was a specific bar under the Chennai city municipal corporation Act to run a dhobikhana in a residential area. Hence, the petitioner had filed the present petition.
( Source : dc )
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