2021 Supreme(SC) 598
A.M.KHANWILKAR, HRISHIKESH ROY, C.T.RAVIKUMAR
Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai – Appellant
Versus
Ankita Sinha – Respondent
Advocates appeared:
For Appellant(s) Mr. E. M. S. Anam, AOR Mr. V. Giri, Sr. Adv. Mr. Abhilash M.R., Adv. Mr. Sayooj Mohandas M, Adv. Mr. Amith Krishnan, Adv. Mr. M. Thangathuraj, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Singh, AOR Mr. Ashish Wad, Adv. Mrs. Tamali Wad, Adv. Mr. Pimple Sharad, Adv. Ms. Sukriti Jaggi, Adv. Mr. Sidharth Mahajan, Adv. M/S. J S Wad And Co, AOR Mr. A. Karthik, AOR Mr. Enoch David Simon Joel, Adv. Ms. Smrithi Suresh, Adv. Mr. Saaketh Kasibhatla, Adv. Mr. Arsh Khan, Adv. Mr. Krishnan Venugopal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Mahesh Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Rohan Talwar, Adv. Mr. Shivendra Singh, Adv. Mr. E. C. Agrawala, AOR Ms. Usha Nandini. V, AOR Mr. S. Thananjayan, AOR Mr. K. Sakthivel, Adv. Ms. Promila, Adv. Ms. Aaina Verma, Adv. Ms. Jaswanti, Adv. Ms. Rashi Bansal, AOR Mr. Seshatalpa Sai Bandaru, AOR Mr. Sajan Poovyya, Sr. Adv. Mr. Anand Kumar Shrivastava, Adv. Mr. Shivam Sinha, Adv. Ms. Priyansha Indra Sharma, Adv. Mr. Chetan Saxena, Adv. Mr. Sharan Balakrishnan, Adv. Mr. Pratibhanu Singh, Adv. Mr. Rahul Jajoo, Adv. Mr. Arpit Shukla, AOR
For the Respondent(s): Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Mr. Md. Shahid Anwar, AOR Mr. C. K. Sasi, AOR Mr. Mukesh Verma, Adv. Mr. Yash Pal Dhingra, AOR Mr. S.J. Amith, Adv. Mr. Purushottam Sharma Tripathi, AOR Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Tahir Ashraf Siddiqui, AOR Mr. Jogy Scaria, AOR Ms. Beena Victor, Adv. Ms. M. Priya, Adv. Mr. Ravi Lomod, Adv. Mr. K.Parameshwar, AOR Mr. Jobi Jose Kondody, Adv. Mr. Aex M. Scaria, Adv. Ms. Usha Nandini. V, AOR Mr. Biju P. Raman, Adv. Ms. Saritha Thomas, Adv. Mr. James P. Thomas, AOR Mr. Boby Thomas, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Parikh, Sr. Adv. Mr. Abhimanue Shrestha, AOR Mr. Satwik Parikh, Adv. Mr. Divyansh Khurana, Adv. Mr. Zulfiker Ali P. S, AOR Mr. Faisal M. Aboobacker, Adv. Ms. Lakshmi Sree P, Adv. Ms. Sadiya Shakeel, Adv. Mr. Nidhesh Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Vanshdeep Dalmia, Adv. Ms. Nishtha Kumar, AOR Mr. Harish Vasudevan, Adv. Ms. Japneet Kaur, Adv. Ms. Vriti Gujral, Adv. Ms. Pallavi Singh, Adv. Mr. Anand Grover, Sr. Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Ms. Mantika Haryani, Adv. Mr. Simranjeet Singh Rekhi, Adv. Mr. Suvidutt M.S., AOR Mrs. Anu B., Adv. Mrs. Dhanya C., Adv. Ms. Vijayalakshmi Raju, Adv.
JUDGMENT :
Hrishikesh Roy, J.
“Estragon: Let’s go.Vladimir: We can’t.
Estragon: Why not?
Vladimir: We’re waiting for Godot.”1[Beckett, S. (1954). Waiting for Godot: Tragicomedy in 2 Acts.]
1. Leave granted in the Special Leave Petitions.
2. The consideration to be made in these matters is whether the National Green Tribunal (for short “the NGT”) has the power to exercise Suo Motu jurisdiction in discharge of its functions under the National Green Tribunal Act, 2010 (for short, “the NGT Act 2010”).
3. In the lead case in this group, i.e. the Civil Appeal No. 86 of 2019, the NGT noticed an article titled “Garbage Gangs of Deonar: The Kingpins and Their Multi-Crore Trade” in the online news portal, The Quint. The article spoke of how mismanagement of solid waste had an adverse impact on the environment, public health and lives of individuals living in the vicinity of the dumping ground in Mumbai city.
4. The NGT took suo motu cognizance of the above article vide order dated 07.08.2018 and directed that the article writer Ankita Sinha be the applicant in the case OA No. 510 of 2018, registered at the NGT’s instance. Thereafter, steps were taken for inspection of the Deonar Dumping site by the
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