JUDGMENT

1. This Original Application has been preferred with the prayers that respondent No.1- Managing Director, M/s. Bharat Serums and Vaccines Ltd. be permanently directed to be shut down due to the violations of environmental laws at its end; respondent No.2- Regional Officer, Maharashtra Pollution Control Board; respondent No.3- Chief Executive Officer, Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation; respondent No.4- Superintendent Engineer, Thane Irrigation Circle; and respondent No.5- Director, Directorate of Industrial Safety & Health be directed to cancel all the permissions related to respondent No.1 to run the activities in its plants at Ambernath and Airoli; respondent No.2- Regional Officer, Maharashtra Pollution Control Board be directed to review/set aside ‘Consent to Operate’ granted to the respondent No.1; and cost be imposed upon the respondent No.1’s Industry.

2. In the body of this application, it is submitted that the applicant has observed hazardous waste being generated by the respondent No.1’s plant in a close proximity to the Chikhloli Dam, resulting in leachate being generated, which is having capacity to pollute the ground water table. This act is putting