Wipro dragged to Court. Vattinagulapalli SEZ under threat.
DC 01.03.08

The additional chief metropolitan magistrate on Friday asked the Saifabad police to register a case against Wipro Ltd and its chairman Azim Premji for allegedly polluting the city’s main sources of drinking water.

The court passed orders on a complaint filed by an advocate, Mr T. Kumar Babu, alleging that Wipro was polluting water in Himayatsagar and Osmansagar with constructions in the catchment area of the reservoirs.

The government has prohibited constructions and industries within a 10-km radius of Himayatsagar and Osmansagar to protect the reservoirs from pollution and to provide clean drinking water. Mr Babu alleged that various bureaucrats and the managing director of the Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation had illegally allotted 100 acres to Wipro within the radius of the prohibited zone.

He said this was criminal breach of trust punishable under Section 409 of the IPC and urged the court to register a case against the Wipro chairman, the chief secretary, the principal secretary, municipal administration, and the MD of APIIC under Sections 409, 277 and 120 (b) of the IPC.