Supreme Court · 2017 INSC 700 · Decided 2 August 2017
Common Cause v. Union of India and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2017 INSC 700 · [2017] 13 S.C.R. 361
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 114/2014
- Decided
- 2 August 2017
- Bench
- MADAN B. LOKUR, DEEPAK GUPTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Directions issued
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution; Environment Protection Act Section 3(3), 3(1)
Headnote
Mines and Minerals - Illegal mining of enonnous proportions in districts of Odisha - Writ petition partly based on reports given by Justice MB. Shah Commissions of Inquiry sought directions, inter alia, to Union of India and Government ofOdisha to immediately stop forthwith all illegal mining in into such illegal mining - Plea of mining lease holders that reports given by Commission were v,itiated as they were not given notice u/ss.8B, 8C of the 1952 Act. and thus. the very foundation of the writ petition goes away - Held: First report given by Commission was a general, overall
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