Take Back Diverted Reserved Forest Land Within A Year: Top Court's Big Order

SC bars Centre from granting retrospective environmental clearances

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday said the right to live in a pollution free atmosphere was a part of the fundamental right as it struck down Centre’s office memorandum allowing ex post facto or retrospective environmental clearances to projects in violation of norms. A bench comprising Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan made scathing remarks in its judgement delivered on a plea filed by Vanashakti organisation and said, “The Union Gover…

The new Chief Justice of India Bhushan Gavai has given a big blow to former Union Minister Narayan Rane by giving the first verdict of his tenure. The Supreme Court has canceled the decision to hand over 30 acres of forest land in Pune to a private builder in 1998 and has ordered to hand over the land back to the forest department.

Take Back Diverted Reserved Forest Land Within A Year: Top Court's Big Order

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed all states and union territories to constitute special investigation teams to examine if any reserved forest land in possession of the revenue department was allotted to any private parties for non-forestry purp

Form SITs to examine status of forest land: SC to states, UTs

STATE TIMES NEWS NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday directed all the states and union territories to constitute special investigation teams to examine if any reserved forest land was allotted to any private parties for non-forestry purpose.A bench of Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justices Augustine George Masih and K Vinod Chandran directed the states and UTs to take steps to take back possession of such lands and handover the same to the fo…