Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 923 · Decided 3 August 2025
Delhi Pollution Control Committee v. Lodhi Property CO. LTD. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 923 · [2025] 8 S.C.R. 362
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 757/2013
- Decided
- 3 August 2025
- Bench
- PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA, MANOJ MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution
Headnote
Whether the regulatory boards can, in exercise of powers u/s.33A of the Water Act and s.31A of the Air Act, impose and collect as restitutionary and compensatory damages fixed sums of monies or require furnishing bank guarantees as an ex-ante environmental damage. Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 - s.33A - Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 - s.31A - The Division Bench of the High Court held that DPCC (regulatory body/Board) is not empowered to levy
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