Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 267 · Decided 18 April 2013
Orissa Mining Corporation v. Ministry of Environment & Forest & Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 267 · [2013] 6 S.C.R. 881
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 180/2011
- Decided
- 18 April 2013
- Bench
- AFTAB ALAM, K.S. RADHAKRISHNAN, RANJAN GOGOI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
Headnote
A B Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 - Primitive Tribal C Groups - Specific protections extended to their "habitat and habitations" - Bauxite Mining Project (BMP) - Ministry of Environment and Forests forest clearance for diversion of 660. 7 49 hectares of forest land for mining of bauxite ore in Lanjigarh Bauxite Mines in Kalahandi D and Rayagada Districts of Orissa - Alleged violation of the rights of the Scheduled Tribes (STs) and the "Traditional Forest Dwellers" (TFDs) - Held:
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