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2024 Supreme(Online)(NGT) 5441

NATIONAL GREEN TRIBUNAL CHENNAI (SOUTHERN ZONE BENCH)
PUSHPA SATHYANARAYANA, Judicial Member, SATYAGOPAL KORLAPATI, Expert Member
T.M. Umashankar – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent


Advocates:
For Applicant(s): Mr. Ritwick Dutta, Mr. Stanly Hebzon Singh
For Respondent(s): Mr. G. M. Syed Nurullah Sheriff, Mr. M.R. Gokul Krishnan, Ms. R. M. Abinaya, Mr. B. Dhanaraj, Mr. Sanjeet Purohit, Ms. N. Nathami

Table of Content
1. tsdf operates without separate environmental clearance (Para 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9)
2. existing ec for incinerator covers integrated tsdf facility (Para 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23)
3. application barred by res judicata and limitation (Para 19 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37)
4. joint committee finds no significant environmental violations (Para 24 , 25 , 26 , 27)
5. application dismissed with costs for frivolous litigation (Para 38 , 39 , 40)

JUDGMENT

Delivered by Smt. Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana, Judicial Member

1. The above application is filed by the applicant, who is an agriculturist and was a former president of the Somapur Gram Panchayat. The application challenges the blatant and gross violations committed by the 5th respondent by running a hazardous waste treatment storage and disposal facility which is a ‘Red’ category set up in Dobaspet Industrial area, Pemmanahalli and Thimmanayana Village, Nelamangala Talu, Bangalore.

2. The landfill facility has capacity 40,000 TPA and a hazardous waste incineration facility of capacity 5.5 million cal/hr. According to the applicant, the Treatment Storage an

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