Madras High Court reserves orders in cases challenging NGT’s construction ban on 1 km radius around Pallikaranai marshland

CHENNAI The Madras High Court on Wednesday (November 11, 2026) reserved its orders on a batch of writ petitions filed by CREDAI-Chennai and others questioning National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) authority to impose a blanket ban on new constructions within a radius of one kilometre from the existing boundaries of the Pallikaranai marshland, a Ramsar site spread over 1,247.54 hectare. The First Division Bench of Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G.

Arul Murugan deferred their verdict without mentioning any date as to when the orders would be pronounced. The decision was taken after hearing senior counsel P.S.

Raman for CREDAI-Chennai and Additional Advocate General P.V. Balasubramaniam for Tamil Nadu State Wetlands Authority (TNSWA).