Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 379 · Decided 11 May 2011
Narmada Bachao Andolan v. State of Madhya Pradesh & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 379 · [2011] 6 S.C.R. 443
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2082/2011
- Decided
- 11 May 2011
- Bench
- J.M. PANCHAL, DEEPAK VERMA, B.S. CHAUHAN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution
Headnote
PLEADINGS: Pleadings...,. Writ petition by Narmada Bachao Ando/an, as public interest litigation - Held: A party has to plead its case and produce/adduce sufficient evidence to substantiate B c the averrnents made in the petition and in case the pleadings D are not complete, the Court is to entertain the pleas - It cannot be said that the rules of procedural law do not apply in PIL - In the instant case, there were no pleadings before the High Court on the basis of which the writ petition could be entertained/decided - Thus, it was liable to E be rejected at the threshold for
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