National Green Tribunal
Nizamuddin West Association vs Union Of India on 16 March, 2018
BEFORE THE NATIONAL GREEN TRIBUNAL,
PRINCIPAL BENCH, NEW DELHI
Original Application No. 06 of 2012
(M.A. No. 641/2015, M.A. No. 1014/2016, M.A. No. 1016/2016 M.A. No.
1243/2016, M.A. No. 564/2017, M.A. No. 1148/2017, M.A. No. 1237/2017, M.A.
No. 158/2018, M.A. No. 233/2018, M.A. No. 333/2018 and 347/2018)
And
(M.A. No.199 of 2015, M.A. No.238 of 2015, M.A. No.344 of 2015,
M.A. No. 512 of 2015, M.A. No. 513 of 2015, M.A. No.692 of 2015,
M.A. No. 310 of 2016 & M.A. No. 508 of 2016)
In
Original Application No.300 of 2013
And
Original Application No. 164 of 2015
And
M.A. No. 525 of 2017 & 526 of 2017
(I.A. No. 20 & 21 of 1997 in
W.P. (C) No. 4677 of 1985)
(M.A. No. 1085 of 2017)
And
Original Application No. 276 of 2017
(W.P. (C) No. 725 of 1994)
(M.A. No. 161 of 2018)
And
Original Application No. 430 of 2017
(Earlier M.A. No. 527 of 2017)
(Contempt Petition (C) No. 64 of 2013 in
W.P. (C) No. 914 of 1996)
And
Original Application No. 277 of 2017
(W.P. (C) No. 1082 of 2013)
And
Original Application No. 278 of 2017
(W.P. (C) No. 533 of 2012)
IN THE MATTER OF:
Manoj Mishra Vs. Union of India & Ors.
And
Manoj Kumar Misra & Anr. Vs. Union of India & Ors.
And
Rajeev Suri Vs. Vice Chairman, DDA & Ors.
And
M.C. Mehta Vs. Union of India & Ors.
And
News Item Published in Hindustan Times
"And Quiet Flows the Maily Yamuna"
Vs.
Central Pollution Control Board & Ors.
And
Sector 14 Resident Welfare Association Vs. State of Delhi & Ors.
And
Ashok Narain Sharma Vs. National Ganga River Basin Authority
And
All India Lokadhikar Sangathan Vs. Union of India & Ors.
CORAM : HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE JAWAD RAHIM, JUDICIAL MEMBER
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S.P. WANGDI, JUDICIAL MEMBER HON'BLE DR. NAGIN NANDA, EXPERT MEMBER 1 Present: Applicant: Mr. Rahul Choudhary and Ms. Meera Gopal, Advs.
Mr. Y. Asenla Pngen, Ms. Anupradhya Singh, Adv. for Applicant Amicus Curaie Mr. Vivek Chib, Mre. Vikramaditya, Advs Mr. V.K. Shukla, Adv. with Ms. Vijay Laxmi, Advs. for State of MP Mr. Pradeep Misra and Mr. Daleep Dhyani, Advs. for UPPCB Mr. Anil Grover, AAG, Haryana and Mr. I.K. Kapila, Adv. for State of Haryana Mr. I.K. Kapila, Adv. for Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam Mr. Parag Tripathi Sr. Adv., Mr. H.S. Phoolka, Mr. Alok Gupta Adv. for DJB Mr. Narender Pal Singh, Ms. Aditi Singh, Advs. and Mr. Dinesh Jindal, LO, Mr. Mothi Chugh, Adv-Delhi Pollution Control Committee Mr. Rajiv Bansal, Sr. Adv., Mr. Kush Sharma and Mr. Vaibhav Nautiyal, Advs. Ms. Priyanka Sinha, Adv. for State of Jharkhand Dr. Sandeep Singh, Mr. Vinay Pal, Adv. for State of Uttar Pradesh Ms. Puja Kalra and Mr. Virendra Singh, Advs. for South and North MCD Mr. Ravindra Kumar and Mr. Achyut Saxena, Advs. for NOIDA Mr. Mukesh Verma and Mr. Pawan Kumar Shukla, Advs, UPPCB Mr. Jogy Scaria, Ms. Beena Victor and Ms. Miranda Soloman, Advs.
Mr. Manoj Kumar for Mr. Moni Cinmoy, Adv. for DSIIDC Ms. Richa Oberoi and Mr. Ankit Banati, advs. Mr. Alok Kumar , Mr. Abhishek Paruthi with Ms. Urmila, LO, Central Pollution Control Board Mr. Tarunvir Singh, Ms. Guneet Khehar and Mr. Sandeep Mishra, Advs.
Mr. Balendu Shekhar, Mr. Sriansh Prakash and Mr. Rajkumar Mauray, Advs. for EDMC Mr. Ishwer Singh and Mr. Kumar Ajitabh, Advs. for NMCG Ms. Sudha Varshney and Mr. Ankush Sharma, Advs.
Mr. Raja Chatterjee Mr. Piyush Sachdev, and Mr. Abhinandini Yadav, Advs. for State of WB Mr. Ajay Marwah, Adv. for State of Himachal Pradesh Mr. N.M. Popli and Ms. Sudha Verma, Advs. Mr. Sanjay Upadhyay, Ms. Esha Krishn and Ms. Upama Bhattacharjee, Advs. Ms. Deep Shikha Bharti, Adv. Mr. Sanjeev Ralli and Mr. Mohit Chugh, Advs. Mr. Dinesh Jindal, LO Mr. B.V. Niren and Mr. Vinayak Gupta, Adv. Mr. A. K. Prasad and Mr. Shashank Saxena, Advs. For MoUD Mr. Anil Grover AAG and Mr. Rahul Khurana, Adv. for State of Haryana & HSPCB Mr. H.S. Phoolka, Sr. Adv. along with Mr. Sr. Sumeet Pushkarna and Mr. Devanshu Sahiny, Advs. with Mr. Jagdish Arora, CE and Water for DJB MR. Vivek Kumar Tondon, Adv. MR. Avneesh Arputham, Mr. Kabeer Srivastava and Ms. Simran Jeet, Advs.
Ms. D. Bharathi Reddy and Ms. Vidyottma, Advs. for State of Uttarakhand Mr. Tanmaya Agarwal, Adv.
2Mr. Kabeer Shrivastava Advs. Mr. Tarun Johri and Mr. Ankit Saini, Advs. Mr. Attin Shankar Rastogi, Adv. for Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Mr. Mukul Singh and Mr. Sajah Garg, Advs, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Mr. Gautam Singh and Mr. Shoeab Alam, Advs. Mr. Rudreshwar Singh and Mr. Gautam Singh, Advs.
Mr. Rajkumar Adv. with Ms. Urmila Thakur, LA Central Pollution Control Board Ms. Sakshi Popli, Mr. Ritesh Kumar and Ms. Aditi Chugh, Advs. for NDMC, MoEF&CC & DJB Mr. Rahul Pratap, Adv. for Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Mr. Divya Prakash Pandey, Adv. Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AAG, Mr. Siddharth Garg with Ms. Bihu Sharma for State of H.P Mr. Mr. Brajesh Pandey, Mr, Kumar Ajitabh, Advs for National Mission for Clean Ganga (Ministry of Water Resources ) Mr. Debopriyo Pal, Ms. Asha Basu for WBPCB Mr. Rajiv Bansal, Sr. Adv, with Mr. Kush Sharma and Mr. Vaibhav Nautiyal, Advs. Mr. Ajay Marwah for State of Himachal Pradesh Mr. Anchit Sharma, Mr. Dipankar Wadhwa, Advs. for DCB Mr. Rajesh K, Singh and Mr. Rovins Verma, Advs.
Mr. Varun Thakur and Mr. Brajesh Pande, Advs. Mr. Om Prakash, Adv. for Railway Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Mr. Kabeer Srivastava and Ms. Simarat Jeet, Advs.
Mr. Amit Kr. Singh, Mr. Alok Kumar and Mr. Abhishek Paruthi, Advs.
Date and Orders of the Tribunal Remarks Item No. 21 to 28 We had permitted the contesting parties to respond March 16, to the photographs filed by the Learned Senior Counsel, 2018 Mr. H.S. Phoolka showing the non-availability of water in ss the reservoir, virtually drying up completely. He draws our attention to people travelling in the said reservoir using vehicles.
The Learned AAG appearing on behalf of the State of Haryana states that they have prepared a statement and will be filing in the registry. The Learned Counsel appearing for State of Uttar Pradesh submits that she has instructions and will be filing the statement shortly.
Hence we permit them to file statement in the registry by 3 Item No. tomorrow i.e. 17th March, 2018. 21 to 28 Post this case on Monday i.e. 19th March, 2018. March 16, 2018 ss ..........................................,JM (Dr. Jawad Rahim) ..........................................,JM (S.P. Wangdi) ..........................................,EM (Dr. Nagin Nanda) 16.03.2018 4