State of Bihar vs Pawan Kumar - 2022 Supreme(SC) 31

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2022 Supreme(SC) 31

L.NAGESWARA RAO, B.R.GAVAI
State of Bihar – Appellant
Versus
Pawan Kumar – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
For the Appellant(s) : Mr. Azmat Hayat Amanullah, AOR Mr. Rishi K Awasthi, Adv. Mr. Piyush Vatsa, Adv
For the Respondent(s): Mr. Rajiv Shankar Dvivedi, AOR Mr. Alok Sangwan,Adv. Mr. Sushant Kumar Sarkar,Adv. Mr. Rishabh Jain,Adv. Ms. Jyoti Kumar Singh,Adv. Mr. Vanshdeep Dalmia, AOR Ms. Shivali Chaudhary,Adv. Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Mr. Arvind Kumar, Adv Mr. Aditya Singh, AOR Mr. Shubham Singh, Adv. Mr. Anubhav Singh, Adv. Mr. Narender Hooda, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sumit Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Akshay Amritanshu, Adv. Mr. Narender Hooda, Sr Adv Mr. Anurag Kulharia, Adv. Mr. Ankit Kumar Lal, AOR Mr. Anand Varma, AOR Ms. Apoorva Pandey,Adv. Mr. Dharmendra Kumar Sinha, AOR Mr. Ajit Upadhyay,Adv. Mr. Arun Adhlakha,Adv. Mr. Rohit Kumar Singh, AOR Ms. Sadapuran Mukherjee,Adv. Mr. Rahul Kumar Gupta,Adv. Ms. Chandni Arora,Adv. Ms. Aditi Shahi,Adv. Mr. Siddhant Buxy, AOR Mr. Pankaj Bhagat, AOR Mr. Aakash Sirohi, AOR Mr. Narender Hooda, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sumit Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Ansar Ahmad Chaudhary, AOR Mr. C.A. Sundaram, Sr. Adv Mr. Sumit Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Shehla Chaudhary, Adv. Md. Anas Chaudhary, Adv. Ms. Rita Jha, AOR Ms. Mukul Rohatgi, Sr. Adv. Ms. Devanshi Singh, Adv. Ms. Nishtha Kumar, AOR

ORDER :

1. All these I.A. arise out of the directions issued by this Court vide order dated 10th November 2021 in Civil Appeal Nos. 3661-3662 of 2020.

2. The State of Bihar had approached this Court challenging the order dated 14th October 2020, passed by the National Green Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi (hereinafter referred to as “the Tribunal”) in O.A. No. 40/2020/EZ with O.A. No. 57/2020/EZ, thereby issuing various directions. This Court after taking into consideration various aspects, including the necessity to curb illegal mining activities and the necessity to permit legal mining in the interregnum till the other directions issued by this Court are complied with, had issued the following directions dated 10th November 2021:

(i) The exercise of preparation of DSR for the purpose of mining in the State of Bihar in all the districts shall be undertaken afresh. The draft DSRs shall be prepared by the Sub-Divisional committees consisting of the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Officers from Irrigation Department, Sta

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2022 Supreme(SC) 31

L.NAGESWARA RAO, B.R.GAVAIState of Bihar – AppellantVersusPawan Kumar – Respondent

L.NAGESWARA RAO, B.R.GAVAI
State of Bihar – Appellant
Versus
Pawan Kumar – Respondent