GHMC told to check mosquito menace

HYDERABAD: “Hyderabad appears to be a dirty city. Filth is floating everywhere,” commented Chief Justice Madan B Lokur while hearing a writ petition on the mosquito menace in the city. The bench of the Chief Justice and justice PV Sanjay Kumar was hearing a writ petition filed by advocate Wasim Ahmed Khan complaining against GHMC’s failure in dealing with the mosquito, and by extension, the malaria problem.
The bench adjourned by six weeks the petition granting time to GHMC to come up with a detailed plan of action but not before observing that the only way to get GHMC officials to work is perhaps under the threat of prosecution. GHMC has been at the receiving end of the bench before. The bench had voiced concern at the civic body’s indifference in removing an open garbage dump near Imlibun bus depot.