Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 399 · Decided 6 May 2024
Tapas Guha & ORS. v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 399 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 75
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4603/2024
- Decided
- 6 May 2024
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, J.B. PARDIWALA, MANOJ MISRA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 144
Headnote
The Appellants in an Original Application before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) contended that there was widespread cutting of shade trees, uprooting of tea bushes and eviction of tea estate workers in the Doloo Tea Estate, the site Airport Project in Assam, without obtaining environmental clearance. It was also contended that this was in violation of the provisions of Environmental Impact Assessment Notification, 2006, which necessitates prior Environmental Clearance and public consultation for Category-A projects in
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