The damage was caused during the time period between 2018-22. The judgment was delivered by a bench comprising NGT Chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava and Expert Member Dr A Senthil Vel. Kushal Mehta, Owner, Himalayan Trout Fish Farm, moved the Tribunal in 2020. The tribunal stated in the order, “The respondent HPPWD in its reply has admitted that the construction activity period of Haripur bridge was from December 2018 till January 2022. It will be open to the HPPWD to recover this amount from the private contractor.”