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The bench comprising of Chief Justice V Gopala Gowda and Justice B N Mohapatra today heard the arguments of Dhamra Port Trust and KoPT officials.
Earlier, the above two port trusts had moved High Court seeking to be made parties to the case.
It may be mentioned here that a PIL was filed in the court seeking stay on the notification issued for the KoPT limits expansion. The petitioner had highlighted that KoPT transgresses the limits of Odisha coast jeopardizing the maritime activities in the state. With this, it will put brakes on the economic and industrial growth of the state, the petition had said.