ORDER

1. Mr. Sankar Prasad Pani, assisted by Mr. Ashutosh Padhy, learned Counsel is present (in Virtual Mode) on behalf of the Applicants.

2. No one is present on behalf of the State Respondents, Government of Odisha.

3. Heard learned Counsel for the parties.

(Final order of the said case will be uploaded in NGT website by separate sheets of paper).

ORDER

1. Mr. Sankar Prasad Pani, assisted by Mr. Ashutosh Padhy, learned Counsel is present (in Virtual Mode) on behalf of the Applicants.

2. The allegation in the present Original Application is that the Respondent Nos.13 is constructing a 3^rd line railway track from Bhadrak to Nergundi for which the earthbed is constructed by taking earth/Morrum from various places including Plot No.1606, Khata No.529 under Mania village, Khata No.530, Plot No.48 and Khata No.532, Plot No.550 under the Panchayat Uchapada under Tangi Choudwar Tahasil. It is alleged that about 20 lakh cubic meters of Morrum has been illegally lifted/extracted from various places in Cuttack district. Allegation also is that illegal Morrum mining being carried out on Revenue Forest Land of different villages and trees have been felled by the Respondent No.13 for mining Morrum.

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