18.12.2025 (D/L-29) Ct. No.25 (B.K.N.)

W.P.A. 16085 of 2025 M/S Balaji Minerals & Anr.

Vs.

Arunachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board & Ors.

Mr. Kallol Bose, Mr. Vikas Baisya, Mr. Nilanjan Pal, Ms. Ranjana Seal … for the Petitioners

1. The petitioner has filed the present writ application challenging the impugned order passed by the National Green Tribunal in Original Application No. 10/2024/EZ dated 20^th January, 2024 wherein the Tribunal observed that the documents on record clearly establish that the stone crusher unit of the respondent no. 13 was within 500 meters of Mebo forest.

2. In this view of the matter, we can allow the stone crusher unit of the respondent no. 13 to function at the site in question. We, therefore, direct the Deputy Commissioner, Pasighat and Divisional Forest Officer, Pasighat Forest Division, Pasighat to take immediate steps to ensure that the respondent no. 13’s stone crusher unit is not allowed to function at the site in question and removed therefrom.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioner have obtained a No Objection Certificate from the concerned authorities. The Divisional Forest Officer, Pasighat Forest Division on 14^th