JUDGMENT :

C. JAYACHANDRAN, J.

1. Ext.P25 Order impugned in this Writ Petition reflects a classic example of abuse of power by the 1^st respondent Minority Commission.

2. The 1^st petitioner is the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (for short 'SEIAA') and the 2^nd petitioner, the State Expert Appraisal Committee (for short 'SEAC'), both constituted in terms of Clause 3 of the Environmental Impact Assessment Notification, 2006 (for short, 'E.I.A Notification, 2006'). The 1^st respondent is the Kerala State Minority Commission constituted under Section 3 of the Kerala State Commission for Minorities Act, 2014 (for short, 'the Act, 2014'). The 2^nd respondent is a project proponent, who had applied for Environmental Clearance (E.C) before the 1^st respondent – the statutory authority constituted under the E.I.A Notification, 2006 - for conducting a granite building stone quarry. The impugned Ext.P25 Order of the 1^st respondent/Minority Commission found that the 2^nd respondent had produced a