The public hearing was attended by almost a thousand people, including residents of the area, journalists, and eminent personalities such as Justice P. B. Sawant (former justice of the Supreme Court of India), Aruna Roy, Prabhash Joshi (a senior journalist), Vinod Mehta (editor of a national English newsmagazine), Bharat Dogra (a senior journalist), and Arundhati Roy (an internationally-acclaimed