Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 32 · Decided 13 January 2020
M. C. Mehta v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 32 · [2020] 2 S.C.R. 500
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 13029/1985
- Decided
- 13 January 2020
- Bench
- ARUN MISHRA, DEEPAK GUPTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Directions issued
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 21, 32
Headnote
Environmental Law: Pollution - In hot spots in Delhi and NCR Regions - Supreme Court while deciding earlier Interlocutory Applications, directed Ministry of Environment, forest and Climate Change, Government of India to submit status report filed by Environmental Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) - In order dated 4.11.2019, the Court noted that there is blatant violation of Article 21 of the Constitution, by serious kind of pollution by stubble burning, construction and demolition activities, open dumping of
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