JUDGMENT

Tarun Chatterjee, J.—Al-Kabeer Exports Limited (in short ‘Company’) is a public company formed for the purpose of carrying on the business of processing meat, mainly for export purposes. The company with a view to establish a slaughter house in Rudraram village, in the Medak District of the State of Andhra Pradesh applied to the Gram Panchayat, Rudraram for the requisite permission to construct a factory and other buildings connected therewith. On 24th March 1989, the Gram Panchayat concerned, issued a ‘No Objection Certificate’ (in short ‘NOC’). After obtaining opinion of the District Medical and Health Officer, Director of Town Planning and Director of Factories, State of Andhra Pradesh, permission was granted to the company to run a slaughter house on the selected site on 29th June 1989.

2. Prior to this permission, the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (for short ‘A.P.P.C.B’) also issued a ‘NOC’ on the application of the company filed on December 30, 1988, subject to certain conditions concerning the treatment of effluents and air pollution. In the said NOC, it was inter-alia stipulated that the company shall obtain a second ‘NOC’ and a regular consent under Section