P. JYOTHIMANI,J.

The issue involved in all these cases relates to the commissioning of Units 1 and 2 of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (for brevity, "KNPP"). Even though the prayers in these writ petitions are different, they are taken up together, since the issue is one and the same.

W.P.No.24770 of 2011

2.1. This writ petition is a public interest litigation. The petitioner, who is an Engineering Graduate in Electronics and Instrumentation, claims to be a trustee of a public trust called "Poovulagin Nanbargal", which is connected with environmental and other issues. After coming to know from the newspapers that the Government of India, represented by the Department of Atomic Energy will commission the KKNPP by November, 2011, he has filed the said writ petition for a direction against respondents 1 and 3 to undertake a fresh and transparent review of KKNPP at Kudankulam, Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu by an independent body of experts, including those of the Department of Atomic Energy of the Union of India, by holding public hearings in accordance with law and till such time not to commission the project and also not to commission the same without fresh Environme