Supreme Court · 1987 INSC 199 · Decided 6 August 1987
U.P. Pollution Control Board v. Modi Distillery & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1987 INSC 199 · [1987] 3 S.C.R. 798
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 415/1986
- Decided
- 6 August 1987
- Bench
- A.P. SEN, S. NATARAJAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
Headnote
Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974: Ss. 25, 26, 44 '& 47-Company-Discharge of trade effluents without consent of the Board-Commission of offence under the Act-Officials of the Company whether guilty of offence-Vicarious responsibility. Practice and Procedure: Prevention and with circum· spection and without any technical flaw. The respondent-distillery, an industrial unit of M/s. Modi Industries Ltd., at Modi Nagar manufacturing Industrial alcohol has been discharging its highly noxious and polluted trade effluents into the river through a local drain. It
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