PRAKASH TATIA, D.N.UPADHYAY
Court on its own Motion – Appellant
Versus
State of Jharkhand – Respondent
1. By the Court.--Heard learned counsel for the parties.
2. In view of the filing of the reply on behalf of M/s. Tata Steel Limited in response to the order of this Court dated 21.06.2011, this Court perused the minutes of the meeting dated 25.3.2011 convened in pursuance of the order passed by this Court in present W.P.(PIL) No. 1325 of 2011 and found from the minutes of the said meeting that there were allegations that M/s. Tata Steel Limited is dumping slag in the river Swarnrekha by which the bed width of the said river Swarnrekha has narrowed already. Today it has also been noticed from the reply filed by M/s. Tata Steel Company that there is another river Kharkai whose bed width also has been adversely affected because of the dumping of the slag. Not only this, this Court considered the report of the National Environment Engineering Research Institute of India (NEERI), Nagpur dated 15.6.2004, reference of which has come on record wherein it was observed that by putting slag no pollution is created as the slag produced by the Tata Steel Limited contains no such element which can pollute, in chemical sense, the water of the river and referring that report of the NEERI, this
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