Twelve districts in Kerala prone to landslides, Kerala govt tells high court

KOCHI: The Kerala High Court on Friday appointed an amicus curiae in the case of the recent devastating landslides that rocked the hilly Wayanad District and sought to see various environmental audit reports.

A division bench comprising justices A K Jayasankaran Nambiar and V M Syam Kumar on Friday directed that the Geological Survey of India, the National Centre for Earth Science Studies, the Survey of India and the central government, represented by the Department of Science and Technology, among others, be arraigned in the matter.

The court sought a report that contains the various studies related to the landslides-hit region until 2022.