Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of New item titled “Six workers killed in fire inside Nagaland rat-hole mine “appearing in The Hindu Bureau Dated 27.01.2024 Vs Nagaland Pollution Control Board & Others dated 30/04/2024. Cognizance of the case was taken up suo-motu by the Principal Bench, National Green Tribunal on the basis of the news item titled “Six Workers killed in fire inside Nagaland rat-hole coal mine” published in “The Hindu Bureau” dated January 27, 2024 and thereafter transferred to the Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata.

Nagaland Pollution Control Board and Directorate General of Mines Safety requested for four weeks time to file the counter affidavit. The NGT, granting the request, listed the next hearing of the case for July 10, 2024.