JUDGMENT

1. The present application has been filed by the applicants claiming the following reliefs :-

i. That, the expansion of Respondent No. 6 Coal Washery causing pollution in the area may kindly be order to be declared as illegal, arbitrary, and unconstitutional.

ii. That, a high-level committee may kindly be constituted for submitting report regarding violations of the EC conditions and factual finding of the present status.

iii. That, the Respondent No. 6 may kindly be imposed with heavy environmental compensation for past violations and loss caused to the agricultural produce, underground water and air pollution due to release of life-threatening dusty coal particles.

iv. That, any further order, directions as deem fit in the facts and circumstances submitted above may kindly be passed in favour of the environment and its ecology.

2. Issue raised in this application is protection and conservation of local environment at Village Kanhaiband, Tehsil Janjgir, District Janjgir- Champa (Chhattisgarh) due to operation of coal washery by Respondent No. 6 M/s Mahavir Coal Washery Private Limited. Pertinently, the authorities have allowed the coal washery to expand from 0.99 million tonner