Supreme Court · 1996 INSC 1516 · Decided 19 December 1996
M.C.MEHTA v. Union of India and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1996 INSC 1516 · [1996] SUPP. 10 S.C.R. 383
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 3727/1985
- Decided
- 19 December 1996
- Bench
- KULDIP SINGH, S. SAGHIR AHMAD (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC; Constitution Article 21, 32; Environment Protection Act
Headnote
Environmental Law : Constitution of India, 1950: Articles 21 and 32. Ecology--River Ganga-Pollution of-Calcutta tanneries discharged untreated noxious and poisonous effluent into River Ganga thereby polluting land and rive,.......PJL treated as writ petition-Supreme Court monitored this A .B c categoric findings of NEER/ and also reports of W.B. State Pollution Control Board, possibility of setting up of Common D Effluent Plant at existing locations of Calcutta Tanneries rnled out-Calcutta tanneries was extended all possible help to relocate themselves to new com­ plex-But they did
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