The Supreme Court said Monday it would not permit decommissioned French aircraft carrier Clemenceau to dock in India for being broken up as it was carrying toxic waste but modified this after the owners said they would satisfy the court there were no pollutants on board.
Shipping Decommissioning Industry Corporation (SDIC), the French company that is carrying out de-pollution and dismantling of the ship, gave an undertaking that it would not bring Clemenceau into India's exclusive economic zone while the matter was pending before the apex court.
The undertaking came after judge Arijit Pasayat, speaking for a two-judge bench that also included S.H. Kapadia, said: "We don't want the environment to be polluted. When the French government had not permitted the ship to be broken there, why should we allow the ship to come to India?
"Whether breaking the ship will result in pollution or not is immaterial. The best thing will be to ask the ship to go back from where it started," the court maintained.
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