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2014 Supreme(SC) 9

A.K.PATNAIK, S.S.NIJJAR, FAKKIR MOHAMED IBRAHIM KALIFULLA
T. N. Godavarman Thirumulpad – Appellant
Versus
Union of India (UOI) – Respondent


Advocates:
Advocate Appeared
For Appearing Parties: Harish N. Salve, Uday U. Lalit, Vivek Tankha, R.K. Raizada and Mahaveer Singh, Sr. Advs., A.D.N. Rao, Siddharth Chowdhury, P.K. Manohar, Karan Singh Bhati, Prikshayat Singh, Karmendra Singh, Prashant Kumar and Joseph Pookkatt, Advs. (For APJ Chambers), Rajiv Tyagi, Adv. (For Rajiv Tyagi Associates), Vivek Gupta, S.S. Shamshery, Bhakti Vardhan Singh, Bharat Sood, Kailash Chand, Arvind Kumar Shukla, Amit Shukla,Nihal Ahmad, Alok Shukla, R.C. Kohli, Yash Pal Dhingra, Himanshu Shekhar, Sanchit Guru, Gunwant Dara, D.K. Thakur, Sukhbeer Kaur Bajwa, Shreekant N. Terdal, Gopal Prasad, C.D. Singh, Hemantika Wahi, Preeti Bhardwaj,Parul Kumari, Gopal Prasad, Anitha Shenoy, Mishra Saurabh, Vanshja Shukla and Abhishek Chowdhury, Advs.

ORDER

1. In the case of Lafarge Umiam Mining Private Limited v. Union of India and Ors. [ (2011) 7 SCC 338], this Court, while refusing to interfere with the decisions of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) granting site clearance, EIA clearance read with revised environmental clearance and Stage I forest clearance to the mining project of Lafarge Umiam Mining Private Limited, laid down some guidelines to be followed in future cases in Part-II of its order dated 06.07.2011. These guidelines have been stated in Para 122 of the said order and sub-para (i.1.) of Para 122, this Court called upon the Central Government to appoint a National Regulator under Section 3(3) of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 for appraising projects, enforcing environmental conditions for approvals and to impose penalties on polluters. Despite the order dated 06.07.2011 of this Court, the Central Government did not appoint a National Regulator under Section 3(3) of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986. On 09.09.2013, this Court therefore requested Mr. Mohan Parasaran, learned Solicitor General, to obtain instructions and apprise this Court as to when the direction of this Court will be comp





















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