Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of In Re: Zudpi Jungle Lands. A batch of applications involved a peculiar issue concerning the situation prevailing in the six districts of eastern Vidarbha region namely Nagpur, Wardha, Bhandara, Gondia, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli. The issue pertains to the status of the …
Raps Chief For Not Reading Court Judgment Bangalore: “Garbage in the corporation (BBMP) has to be removed first. Segregate them (officials) and if necessary, throw them out.” This was the stern message from the high court to M Lakshminarayana, commissioner of BBMP. A special division bench headed by Justice N …
While company claims to have obtained deemed environment clearance under rules of EIA Notification, 2006 While the Adani Group-owned Adani Port and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) claimed that it had obtained deemed environmental clearance as per law, people from Navinal village in Mundra, Kutch where the SEZ is located alleged …
A seven-member committee formed by the Union Ministry of Environment & Forest (MoEF) has submitted a report before the Gujarat High Court (HC) saying corporate giant Adani's subsidiary Adani Kandla Bulk Terminal Private Limited has caused a lot of damage to the local ecology through its work for expansion of …
Bombay high court on Friday will hear a public interest litigation for direction to the state government to complete its scheme to supply water through pipelines to 69 villages in Vasai and Virar municipal areas. A division bench of Justice Dhananjay Chandrachud and Justice Amjad Sayed will hear a petition …
We will oppose the Bill in Parliament, says Yechury Cutting across party lines, several political leaders participated on Tuesday in a joint campaign with civil society groups and farmers’ organisations against Genetically Modified crops and the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill at Jantar Mantar here. Participating in the …
A PIL has come to be filed in the Gujarat high court against the proposed plan on part of the city body to ply BRTS on Ashram Road. Advocate Kiran Pandit has filed the petition, claiming that the idea of Bus Rapid Transit System has been a flop one in …
Judgement of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh on the use of PET bottles dated 26/06/2013 in the matter of Prani Mitra Samiti vs The State Of Madhya Pradesh. Original Source: http://www.legalcrystal.com/judgements/description/1043501
Says the ill-gotten wealth should be recovered and used for reclamation and rehabilitation The National Committee for Protection of Natural Resources (NCPNR) has urged chief minister Siddaramiah to take steps to initiate punitive action against companies involved in illegal mining and the officials who connived with them. Founder president of …
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court on Thursday issued notices to the Centre, the state government, the Adani Group-owned Adani Port Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) and Shiracha village panchayat over a PIL filed by villagers accusing the company of encroaching on the village's grazing land. The petitioners have claimed that the …
The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday reserved its order on a PIL on illegal mining of silica in Shankargarh area of Allahabad district. The verdict would be delivered on Friday. The high court bench, comprising Justice Sudhir Agrawal and Justice Sunita Agrawal, passed the order after hearing petitioner's counsel SD …
The State government is planning to provide sugar and wheat to Above Poverty Line (APL) ration cardholders under the Public Distribution System (PDS), Food and Civil Supplies Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao said on Monday. Rao told reporters that the department is working on details to supply wheat and sugar. If …
The state government, filing an affidavit in response to a PIL regarding its public parking policy, informed the Bombay high court that the policy was designed to mainly meet "parking requirements" and not to generate revenue as alleged by the litigant, Pravin Wategaonkar. The state, however , added that it …
On Thursday, the Gujarat high court (HC) asked the state government and Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to file a monthly report showing the number of people affected by malaria and dengue and the number of fatalities. The bench of Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala issued instructions …
Agencies Told To Stop Filthy Supply Bangalore: Asking the authorities to stop supplying contaminated water to many parts of Bangalore, the Karnataka high court on Thursday ordered notice to the state government, BWSSB, BBMP and the KSPCB. “This must stop immediately. Supplying contaminated water is no supply at all,” a …
PIL seeks direction from court to restrain APSEZ from diverting, blocking flow of rivers and from constructing on river-beds The Adani group owned Adani Port and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) was served a notice on Wednesday by the Gujarat High Court on a public interest litigation (PIL) alleging destruction, bunding, …
Two members of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) inspected a dumping ground site at Sector 23 in Panchkula here on Wednesday, where the residents complained to them that the Panchkula Municipal Corporation (PMC) hurriedly filled the site ahead of their visit with soil. The residents said that a foul smell …
Sarakki water body sees mushrooming of properties Thanks to the active connivance of revenue officials with the land sharks, “genuine” properties have come up on the encroached portion of Sarakki Lake. To kill the lake further, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) wanted to asphalt the road, which has been …
JABALPUR: Cabinet minister for water resources, Jayant Malaiya, arbitrarily and with mala fide intentions shifted the site of Pancham Nagar dam project to benefit a particular community purely with an eye on electoral gains. The project will yield him rich political dividends in his constituency Damoh but endanger lives of …
New Delhi: Granting a reprieve to public works department after halting its pavement tiling work in Sheikh Sarai on Wednesday, National Green Tribunal allowed the agency to recommence work but only after it gave an undertaking that it would undo the damage already done to the trees by embedding their …
JAMMU, May 27: In Public Interest Litigation (PIL) against illegal mining across the river Ravi under the jurisdiction of State and seeking closure of 13 illegal stone crushers operating from Lakhanpur down stream to Jarai, Division Bench of High Court comprising Justice Mohd Yaqoob Mir and Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur …
