Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 280 · Decided 21 March 2024
M K Ranjitsinh & ORS. v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 280 · [2024] 3 S.C.R. 1320
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 838/2019
- Decided
- 21 March 2024
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, J.B. PARDIWALA, MANOJ MISRA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Directions issued
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 21, 48A, 51A(g)
Headnote
Conservation and protection of the endangered species of the Great Indian Bustard (GIB). Environment - Rapid and steady decline in the population of the Great Indian Bustard (GIB) - Apart from various other existing population of these endangered birds was partly attributed to overhead transmission lines - Vide order dtd. 19.04.2021, a Committee was appointed for assessing the feasibility of laying high voltage underground power lines; direction was also issued imposing blanket prohibition
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