An electrical engineer signed off the cleanup tender for a 55,000-tonne legacy dump. The fire that wasn't reported didn't happen, and the third garbage mound that didn't exist until 2024 is the one currently growing.
The Chandigarh MC told the Punjab and Haryana High Court that the Dadumajra dump would be fully cleared by the first week of April; on April 17, 2026 it asked for an extension to the first week of May, citing unseasonal rains. Meanwhile petitioner-advocate Amit Sharma placed on record that the November 2023 cleanup tender contains 'more than 150 handwritten alterations' without authentication, was endorsed by an electrical engineer in violation of Solid Waste Management Rules 2016, and that a January 2025 fire at the dump was never disclosed to court. He also alleged that the existence of a third garbage mound was denied to court until 2024, then 'repeatedly revised', and that an overturned truck supposedly carrying refuse-derived fuel was actually carrying untreated wet waste with no FIR registered. Chief Justice Sheel Nagu observed that the perjury and false-documents allegations were 'serious in nature and would require proper adjudication' — a sentence the dump has been waiting for since 2017.