ORDER

1. Both these applications have been filed in light of observations in the order of the Hon(cid:146)ble Supreme Court dated 28.02.2022 in Civil Appeal Diary No(s).1304/2022, the Poultry Farmers and Breeders Association vs.

Gauri Maulekhi & Ors. which is as follows:-

(cid:147)1. Permission to file the Civil Appeals granted.

2 The principal grievance which has been urged on behalf of the appellants by Mr Mukul Rohatgi, senior counsel with Mr Arijit Prasad, is that neither when it passed the first order dated 16 September 2020 nor when it passed the second order of 10 December 2021 did the National Green Tribunal have before it the representatives of the poultry farms who are affected by the directions.

3. Since admittedly the appellants were not before the NGT and having regard to the above grievance, we grant liberty to the appellants to move the NGT with an appropriate application for modification of the directions which have been issued. We clarify that we have not expressed any opinion on the merits of such an application and the above liberty has been granted in order to obviate the grievance of the appellants that they were not furnished an opportunity of being heard. The righ