R. K. ABICHANDANI, J.

( 1 ) ). In this group of matters the petitioners-Industrial units have challenged the action of the State Government taken under Section 5 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (hereinafter referred to as the said Act), giving directions to them to stop production activities and take necessary steps to make the waste water being discharged by the units to conform to the standards specified by the Gujarat Pollution Control Board and not restart the production activities without the permission of State Government and Forest and Environment Department. The directions were issued by the Forest and Environment Department of the Government to these these (sic.) three industrial units under the impugned orders dated 19th October 1994.

( 2 ) ). The petitioner in Special Civil Application No. 12136/94 is a Partnership firm carrying on business in textile processing and having its (sic.) unit in the G. I. D. C. Estate zone at Naroda, Ahmedabad. The said petitioner had applied for consent of the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (hereinafter referred to as the State Board) under Section 25 (2) of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 (hereinafter re

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