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2022 Supreme(SC) 498

N. V. RAMANA, KRISHNA MURARI, HIMA KOHLI
Samaj Parivartana Samudaya – Appellant
Versus
State of Karnataka – Respondent


Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Petitioner(s): Mr. Prashant Bhushan, AOR Ms. Aparna Bhat, AOR
For the Respondent(s): Mr. P. S. Sudheer, AOR Ms. Anne Mathew, Adv. Mr. Bharat Sood, Adv. Ms. Shruti Jose, Adv. Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG Mr. K.M. Nataraj, ASG Mr. Sarad Kumar Singhania, Adv. Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Mr. Rajesh K. Singh, Adv. Mr. R.R. Rajesh Pd., Adv. Mr. Shailesh Madiyal, Adv. Mr. T.S. Sabarish, Adv. Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Mr. Pranay Ranjan, Adv. Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Mr. Jayant Mohan, AOR Ms. Adya Shree Dutta, Adv. Ms. Uttara Babbar, AOR Mrs. Kirti Renu Mishra, AOR Mr. Rajat Jariwal, Adv. Saniya Mirani, Adv. for M/S. Khaitan & Co., AOR Mr. Snehasish Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Yashraj Singh Deora, AOR Mr. Sunil Dogra, Adv. Mr. Vivek Vishnoi, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Sharma, AOR Mr. Vikas Mehta, AOR M/S. Parekh & Co., AOR Mr. Dinesh Kumar Garg, AOR Mr. Prakash Kumar Singh, AOR Mr. G. N. Reddy, AOR Dr. Sushil Balwada, AOR Mr. Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, AOR Mrs. Vaijayanthi Girish, AOR M/S. Lex Regis Law Offices, AOR Ms. Ranjeeta Rohatgi, AOR Mr. Rajeev Maheshwaranand Roy, AOR Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Kunal Verma, AOR Mr. Rajesh Mahale, AOR Mr. Sridhar Potaraju, AOR Mr. A. Raghunath, AOR Mr. Anil Kumar Mishra-i, AOR Ms. A. Sumathi, AOR Mr. Chandra Prakash, AOR Mr. Shailesh Madiyal, AOR Mr. Sudhanshu Prakash, Adv. Ms. Neha Jain, Adv. Mr. Vaibhav Sabharwal, Adv. Mr. Rajan Parmar, Adv. Mr. Prateek samajpati, Adv. Mr. Samir Ali Khan, AOR Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR Mrs. Anjani Aiyagari, AOR Ms. Manjula Gupta, AOR Mr. Balaji Srinivasan, AOR Mr. Shubhranshu Padhi, AOR Mr. Senthil Jagadeesan, AOR Mr. Adarsh Upadhyay, AOR Mr. Merusagar Samantaray, AOR M/S. Karanjawala & Co., AOR Mrs. Sudha Gupta, AOR Mr. Bhargava V. Desai, AOR Mr. Dushyant Dave, Sr. Adv. Mr. Rohit Sharma, Adv. Mr. Aditya Narayan, Adv. Mr. Rounak, Adv. Mr. Arju Chaudhary, Adv. Ms. A. Benegal, Adv. Mr. Kumar Dushyant Singh, AOR Mr. P. V. Dinesh, AOR Mr. Munawwar Naseem, AOR Mr. Ankur S. Kulkarni, AOR Mr. Neeraj Shekhar, AOR Mr. Akhil Anand, AOR Mr. Rakesh K. Sharma, AOR M/S. Ap & J Chambers, AOR Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR Mr. Prashant Kumar, AOR Ms. Surbhi Mehta, AOR Mr. Mukul Rohatgi, Sr. Adv. Mr. C. A. Sundaram,Sr. Adv. Mr. Krishnan Venugopal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Mahesh Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Ankur Saigal, Adv. Ms. Mansi Taneja, Adv. Ms. Deepshikha Mishra, Adv. Mr. Kaustubh Singh, Adv. Mr. Aditya Pratap Swain, Adv. Mr. E. C. Agrawala, AOR Mr. S. S. Shroff, AOR Mr. K. Raghavacharyulu, Adv. Mr. Kailash Pandey, Adv. Mr. Ranjeet Singh, Adv. Shri. Gaichangpou Gangmei, AOR Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR Mr. Hetu Arora Sethi, AOR Mr. Pulkit Tare, AOR Mr. Rituraj Biswas, AOR Ms. Rohini Musa, AOR Mr. Mahfooz A. Nazki, AOR Mr. Polanki Gowtham, Adv. Mr. Shaik Mohamad Haneef, Adv. Mr. T. Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy, Adv. Ms. Rajeswari Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. K.V. Girish Chowdary, Adv. Mr. Ninad Laud, Adv. Ms. Swati Kamat Wagh, Adv. Mr. Aditya Pratap Swain, Adv. Mr. Ivo D’costa, Adv. Ms. Anshula Grover, AOR Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. S.K. Rajora, Adv. Mr. Akhileshwar Jha, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Chawla, Adv. Mr. S. Ashok Reddy, Adv. Mr. S. Sukumaran, Adv. Mr. Anand Sukumar, Adv. Mr. Bhupesh Kumar Pathak, Adv. Mr. T.G. Narayanan Nair, AOR

ORDER :

1. The present writ petition was filed under Article 132 of the Constitution of India over two decades ago, seeking directions to the respondent No. 1/State of Karnataka, respondent No. 2/State of Andhra Pradesh and respondent No.3/Union of India to stop all mining and related activities in the forest areas of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh being carried out and in violation of the order dated 12.12.1996, passed by this Court in T.N. Godavarman Tirumulpad v. Union of India, (1997) 2 SCC 267 and the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980.

2. Directions were also sought to be issued to the respondents/States and the Union of India to declare all mining contracts/sub-leases issued in violation of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 as illegal and take penal actions against the violators. The third prayer made was for directing stoppage of all mining activities along side the border and within the forest areas in the Bellary Reserve Forest. Lastly, directions were sought to declare Notification dated 15.03.2003 and other related Notifications dereserving la

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