The plea urged the court to mandate a comprehensive Heritage Impact Assessment by an independent expert committee before any further progress on the project.
The officials have been instructed to file their responses within four weeks, providing reasons for their inaction in safeguarding the valuable government land.
A bench of Acting Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Renuka Yara was hearing the PIL filed by PVKK Barghav, vice president of the National Union for Migrant Workers.
