Supreme Court · 1986 INSC 19 · Decided 17 February 1986
M.C. Mehta & ANR. ETC. v. Union of India & ORS. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1986 INSC 19 · [1986] 1 S.C.R. 312
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 12739/1985
- Decided
- 17 February 1986
- Bench
- P.N. BHAGWATI, D.P. MADON, G.L. OZA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 133(1); Constitution Article 32
Headnote
Public Interest Litigation and enviro!ll!l!nt law - Power of t~ Supreme Court to interfere under Article 32 of the Constitution to permit the restarting of caustic chlorine plant and under what conditions explained - Constitution of Environment Court, need for - Water (Prevention and Control of and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 section 40(2) of Factories Act, 1948 section 430(3) Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1~57 and section 133(1) of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. r Delhi Cloth Mills Ltd., a public limited company having its reguterecl in Delhi runa an enterprise called
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