Supreme Court · 2000 INSC 564 · Decided 1 December 2000
A.P. Pollution Control Board-Ii v. PROF. M.V. Nayudu (RETD.) and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2000 INSC 564 · [2000] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 249
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 368/1999
- Decided
- 1 December 2000
- Bench
- M. JAGANNADHA RAO, M.B. SHAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 21; Environment Protection Act Section 2(b), 3(2), 5, 3(2)(v)
Headnote
B Pollution laws : Environment (Protection) Act, 1986- -Sections 2(b), 3(2), 5-- Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974- -Sections 2(e), 2(k), 17, 18, C 19, 25-.00 by State prohibiting setting up any industry within JO KM~ from the banks of the two lakes, Osman Sagar and Himayat a GO, State Government subsequently granting an exemption to a single industry, which is declared to be hazardous, tu be set up within the prohibited area- -Held, D the GO granting exemption is without statutory backing and also wholly arbitrary and violative of- Article 21-
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