JUDGMENT

Delivered by Justice Smt. Pushpa Sathyanarayana, Judicial Member

1. The above Original Application is filed by the applicants, who are residents of Avadi Srinivasan Street, Choolai which is located in the residential locality. When it is a primarily residential area, the 3^rd respondent is running an industrial unit engaged in the activity of melting and moulding aluminium scrap into aluminium bars and sheets.

2. The applicants further allege that the abovesaid industrial unit is a hazardous industrial unit engaged in hazardous activity as the process of melting and moulding involves utilization of annealing furnace in which the scrap would be fed and the metal would be melted to convert them into bars and sheets. There is emission of heavy smoke along with metal particles polluting the air which would be harmful for the respiratory system of humans. Despite, the request to the 3^rd respondent to either mitigate the same or to shift his industry to an industrial zone, the same was not heeded to. Hence the above application is filed seeking a direction to the 2^nd respondent, Pollution Control Board to take action against the 3^rd respondent, who is polluting the air in the locali