HOSPITALITY ASSOCIATION OF MUDUMALAI vs IN DEFENCE OF ENVIRONMENT AND ANIMALS

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2020 Supreme(SC) 594

S. A. BOBDE, S. ABDUL NAZEER, SANJIV KHANNA
HOSPITALITY ASSOCIATION OF MUDUMALAI – Appellant
Versus
IN DEFENCE OF ENVIRONMENT AND ANIMALS – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
For the Parties Rahul Shyam Bhandari, Senthil Jagadeesan, Sridhar Potaraju, Shiwani Tushir, Vishnu Tulashi Menon, Trideep Pais, Sanya Kumar, N.K. Verma, Anjana Chandrashekar, Diksha Rai, P. Soma Sundaram, Naveen Kumar, Vikas Mehta, Zulfiker Ali P. S, V. Balachandran, Kaustubh Shukla, Abhay Singh, S. Ravi Shankar, Yamunah Nachair, Shashi Bhushan Kumar, Deepayan Mandal, Janmejay Giridhar, Shakil Ahmed Syed, K. V. Mohan, K.V. Balakrishnan, M.F. Philip, Purnima Krishna, Sudarsh Menon, Mrs. Lalita Kaushik, N. Annapoorani, G. Balaji, Raju Ramachandran, Jayant Muthuraj, AAG M. Yogesh Kanna, Rajarajeswaran, Caveator-in-person, Aparna Bhat, Gurmeet Singh Makker, B. Balaji, B. Krishna Prasad, Vinodh Kanna B., K. V. Vijayakumar, P. A. Noor Muhamed, Annam D. N. Rao, B. Krishna Prasad, Mayuri Raghuvanshi, Advocates

JUDGMENT :

S. ABDUL NAZEER, J.

1. Leave granted.

2. The appellants in these appeals have assailed the final judgment and order dated 07.04.2011 of the High Court of Judicature at Madras, passed in Writ Petition (PIL) No. 10098 of 2008 along with several other writ petitions including Review Application No. 131 of 2010 and Writ Petition No. 23939 of 2010 filed by the Hospitality Association of Mudumalai. The High Court by the impugned judgment has upheld the validity of the Tamil Nadu Government Notification G.O.(Ms.) No. 125, dated 31.08.2010 which had notified an ‘Elephant Corridor’ in the Sigur Plateau of Nilgiris District and has further directed resort owners and other private land owners to vacate and hand over the vacant possession of the lands falling within the notified elephant corridor to the District Collector, Nilgiris within three months from the date of the judgment.

3. The appellant in Civil Appeal Nos.3438-3439 of 2020 (arising out of SLP (C) Nos.17313-17314 of 2011), is the Hospitality Association of Mudumalai, registered under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration

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2020 Supreme(SC) 594

S. A. BOBDE, S. ABDUL NAZEER, SANJIV KHANNAHOSPITALITY ASSOCIATION OF MUDUMALAI – AppellantVersusIN DEFENCE OF ENVIRONMENT AND ANIMALS – Respondent

Cases Referred (2)

S. A. BOBDE, S. ABDUL NAZEER, SANJIV KHANNA
HOSPITALITY ASSOCIATION OF MUDUMALAI – Appellant
Versus
IN DEFENCE OF ENVIRONMENT AND ANIMALS – Respondent