Supreme Court - Daily Orders
In Re : T.N. Godavarman Thirumulpad vs Union Of India on 20 November, 2025
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S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A
RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS
IN RE: ISSUE RELATING TO DEFINITION OF ARAVALLI HILLS AND RANGES
I.A. NO.105701 OF 2024 (CEC REPORT NO.03 OF 2024)
IN
WRIT PETITION(S)(CIVIL) NO(S). 202/1995
IN RE : T.N. GODAVARMAN THIRUMULPAD PETITIONER(S)
VERSUS
UNION OF INDIA & ORS. RESPONDENT(S)
Date : 20-11-2025 This petition was called on for hearing today.
Amicus Curiae Mr. K. Parameshwar, Sr. Advocate [A.C.] Mr. M.V. Mukunda,Adv.
Ms. Kanti,Adv.
Ms. Raji Gururaj,Adv.
Mr. Shreenivas Patil,Adv. Ms. Veda Singh,Adv.
Mr. Prasad Hegde,Adv.
Mr. N. Sai Kaushal,Adv.
Mr. Harish N. Salve, Sr. Adv. [A.C.] Mr. A.D.N. Rao, Sr. Advocate [A.C.] Ms. Aparajita Singh, Sr. Advocate [A.C.] Mr. Siddhartha Chowdhury, Advocate [A.C.] For Petitioner(s)/Applicant(s) :
Mr. Syed Mehdi Imam, AOR Mr. T. Harish Kumar, AOR M/S. Mitter & Mitter Co., AOR Mr. Yashraj Singh Deora, Sr. Adv.
Ms. Anupama Dhurve, Adv.
Mr. Priyesh Mohan Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Sriram Krishna, Adv.Signature Not Verified
M/S. Lawyer S Knit & Co, AOR Digitally signed by NARENDRA PRASAD Date: 2025.11.22 Mr. Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, AOR 12:25:49 IST Reason: M/S. Plr Chambers And Co., AOR 1 For Respondent(s)/Applicant(s) :
Mrs. Aishwarya Bhati Ld, A.S.G. Mrs. Ruchi Kohli, Sr. Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR Mr. Jagdish Chandra Solanki, Adv. Mr. Gaurang Bhushan, Adv. Ms. Suhashini Sen, Adv.
Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, A.S.G. Ms. Ruchi Kohli, Adv. Mr. Gaurang Bhushan, Adv. Mr. Baijnath Patel, Adv. Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Ms. Shivika Mehra, Adv. Ms. Seema Bengani, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, Adv.
Mr. K.M. Nataraj,ASG Mr. Indira Bhakar,Adv. Mr. Sharath Nambiar,Adv. Mr. Vinayak Sharma,Adv. Mr. Vatsal Joshi,Adv. Ms. Satvika Thakur,Adv. Ms. Nikita Capoor,Adv. Ms. Chitransh Sharma,Adv. Mr. Anuj Srinivas Udupa,Adv. Yogya Rajpurohit,Adv. S. Subramaniam,Adv. Mr. Aayush Saklani,Adv. Ms. Ritika Ranjan,Adv.
Mr. K.M. Natraj, A.S.G. Mr. Shiv Mangal Sharma, A.A.G. Mr. Saurabh Rajpal, Adv. Mr. Amogh Bansal, Adv. Ms. Nidhi Jaswal, AOR Mr. K. M. Nataraj, A.S.G. Mr. Harish Pandey, Adv. Ms. Indira Bhakar, Adv. Mr. Anuj Srinivas Udupa, Adv. Mr. Krishna Kant Dubey, Adv. Mr. Piyush Beriwal, Adv. Mr. Neeraj Kumar Sharma, Adv. Ms. Mrinal Elker Mazumdar, Adv. Mr. Shashwat Parihar, Adv. Mr. Mukesh K Verma, Adv. Mr. Vinayak Sharma, Adv. Mr. Santosh Ramdurg, Adv. Mr. Shreekant Neelappa Terdal, AOR Mr. Balbir Singh, Sr. Adv.2
Mr. B.K. Satija, A.A.G. Mr. Samar Vijay Singh, AOR Ms. Sabarni Som, Adv. Mr. Aman Dev Sharma, Adv. Ms. Veena Bansal, Adv. Mr. Gaj Singh, Adv.
Ms. Shruti Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Rayi Peddi Raju, Adv. Mr. Rajat Sinha Roy, Adv. Ms. Kanika, Adv.
Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Mr. Raj Kishor Choudhary, AOR Mr. Shakeel Ahmed, Adv. Mr. Vikram Patralekh, Adv. Ms. Pratibha Singh, Adv. Ms. Shalini Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Gupta Is, Adv. Mr. Shivam Yadav, Adv.
Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR Mr. Deepayan Dutta, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Tripathi, Adv.
Mr. Gaichangpou Gangmei, AOR Mr. Arjun D. Singh, Adv. Mr. Yimyanger Longkumer, Adv. Mr. Kamie Bestman Kabui, Adv.
Mrs. Rekha Pandey, AOR Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR Mr. T. V. George, AOR Mr. Krishnanand Pandeya, AOR Mr. Neeraj Shekhar, AOR Mr. Rajesh Maurya, Adv.
Ms. Asha Gopalan Nair, AOR Mr. Rajesh Singh, AOR Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Chawla, Adv. Mr. Akhileshwar Jha, Adv. Mr. Mahi Pal Singh, Adv. Mr. Dinesh Kumar Mudgal, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Singh Dingra, Adv. Mr. Supriya, Adv.
Mrs. Manisha Chawla, Adv. Ms. Swati Vishan, Adv. Ms. Shreya Jha, Adv.
Ms. Aarushi, Adv.3
Mr. Varun Varma, Adv. Mr. Narendra Pal Sharma, Adv. Mr. Chaman Sharma, Adv. Mr. Shubham Rajhans, Adv. Mr. Ishank Ranjan, Adv. Mr. Prakhar Shukla, Adv. Mr. D.p.singh, Adv.
Mr. Jatin Malik, Adv. Mr. Dilip Kumar, Adv. Mr. Anupam Kumar, Adv. Mr. Jogender Kumar, Adv. Mr. Honey Sharma, Adv. Mr. Avnish Sharma, Adv. Mr. Devendra Kumar Mishra, Adv. Mr. Anil Rana, Adv.
Mr. Abhishek Sachdeva, Adv. Mr. Sarthak Upadhyay, Adv. Ms. Niharika Dwivedi, Adv. Ms. Ritika Raj, Adv.
Mr. Rakesh Vishan, Adv. Mr. Ashwani Kumar, Adv. Mr. Sanjiv Kumar Jain, Adv. Mr. Birj Kant Mishra, Adv.
Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR Mr. Mohd. Irshad Hanif, AOR Ms. Rifat Ara Butt, Adv.
Mr. Punit Dutt Tyagi, AOR Mr. Rathin Das, AOR Mr. Ratan Kumar Choudhuri, AOR Mr. Sudhir Kulshreshtha, AOR Mr. Himanshu Shekhar, AOR Mr. Parth Shekhar, Adv. Mr. Shubham Singh, Adv. Mr. Youkteshwari Prasad, Adv. Ms. Ambali Vedasen, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Verma, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar Tomar, Adv. Mr. Rayi Peddi Raju, Adv. Mr. Rajat Sinha Roy, Adv. Mr. Mayur Raj, Adv.
Mr. Nikhil Kumar, Adv. Mr. Shalini Satyanarayan, Adv. Mr. Soumydeep Chatterjee, Adv. Mr. Darshan Chandrakant Siddarkar, Adv. Mr. Kunal Kumar, Adv. Mr. Shubham Singhal, Adv. Mr. Vijay Singh, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Raman Singh, Adv.4
Mr. Maheshwaram Yadava Reddy, Adv.
Ms. Sushma Suri, AOR Mr. Sudhir Kumar Gupta, AOR Mr. A. N. Arora, AOR Mr. Irshad Ahmad, AOR Mr. G. Prakash, AOR Mr. E. M. S. Anam, AOR Mrs. Bina Gupta, AOR Mr. P. V. Yogeswaran, AOR Mr. Jitendra Mohan Sharma, AOR Ms. Malini Poduval, AOR Ms. C. K. Sucharita, AOR Ms. Binu Tamta, AOR Mr. Shibashish Misra, AOR Mr. K. L. Janjani, AOR Mr. Naresh K. Sharma, AOR Ms. A. Sumathi, AOR Ms. Prasanthi@bharathi, Adv.
Mr. Jai Prakash Pandey, AOR Mrs. Anjani Aiyagari, AOR Mr. K. V. Vijayakumar, AOR Mrs. Rani Chhabra, AOR Ms. Divya Roy, AOR Mr. Tarun Johri, AOR Mr. Radha Shyam Jena, AOR Mr. Ajit Pudussery, AOR Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR Ms. Manpreet Kaur, Adv.
M/S. Parekh & Co., AOR M/S. K J John And Co, AOR Mr. V. Balachandran, AOR Mr. S. C. Birla, AOR Mr. Ram Swarup Sharma, AOR Mr. T. Mahipal, AOR Mr. Umesh Bhagwat, AOR Mrs. M. Qamaruddin, AOR Mr. H. S. Parihar, AOR Ms. Baby Krishnan, AOR Mr. P. R. Ramasesh, AOR Mr. Rakesh K. Sharma, AOR Mr. P. N. Gupta, AOR Mr. Sarad Kumar Singhania, AOR Mr. E. C. Agrawala, AOR Mr. Kuldip Singh, AOR Ms. Bina Madhavan, AOR Ms. Pratibha Jain, AOR Mr. Rajat Joseph, AOR 5 Mr. Gopal Prasad, AOR Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR Mr. S.. Udaya Kumar Sagar, AOR Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR Ms. Sharmila Upadhyay, AOR Mr. Tejaswi Kumar Pradhan, AOR M/S. Arputham Aruna And Co, AOR Mrs. Nandini Gore, AOR Mr. Raj Kumar Mehta, AOR Ms. Madhu Moolchandani, AOR Mrs. B. Sunita Rao, AOR Mr. Rajeev Singh, AOR Mrs. Kanchan Kaur Dhodi, AOR Mr. Surya Kant, AOR Mr. E. C. Vidya Sagar, AOR M/S. M. V. Kini & Associates, AOR Mrs. Manik Karanjawala, AOR Mr. Kamal Mohan Gupta, AOR Mr. Prashant Kumar, AOR Mr. Dharmendra Kumar Sinha, AOR Mr. Subodh Kr. Pathak, Adv. Mr. Pawan Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Kanishk Mor, Adv. Mrs. Vandana Beri, Adv.
Mr. P. Parmeswaran, AOR Ms. Sujata Kurdukar, AOR Ms. Charu Mathur, AOR Mr. A. Venayagam Balan, AOR Mr. Sudarsh Menon, AOR Mr. Ramesh Babu M. R., AOR Mr. Vikrant Singh Bais, AOR Mr. Shiva Pujan Singh, AOR Ms. K. V. Bharathi Upadhyaya, AOR Mr. Sufyan Hasan, Adv. Ms. Hema Malik, Adv.
Ms. Pritama, Adv.
Dr. Sunita, Adv.
Ms. Shaivani Gupta, Adv.
Mr. Rajiv Mehta, AOR Mr. Ejaz Maqbool, AOR Mr. Rajesh, AOR M/S. Corporate Law Group, AOR Mr. Lakshmi Raman Singh, AOR Mr. B V Deepak, AOR Mr. T. N. Singh, AOR Mr. C. L. Sahu, AOR Mr. Rajendra Sahu, Adv.6
Mrs. Hema Sahu, Adv.
Mr. Rishabh Sahu, Adv.
Ms. Sumita Hazarika, AOR Ms. Abha R. Sharma, AOR Mr. Abhishek Chaudhary, AOR Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna, AOR Mr. Vikash Singh, AOR Mr. Krishna Ballabh Thakur, AOR Ms. Aruna Gupta, AOR Mr. Ramesh Allanki, Adv. Mr. Ramchander Goud Vangala, Adv. Mr. Francis Joseph Clement, Adv. Mr. Syed Ahmad Naqvi, Adv. Mr. Yash Gupta, Adv.
Ms. Mamatha Ralla, Adv. Ms. Nandita Biswas, Adv.
Mr. S.N. Terdal, AOR Dr. N. Visakamurthy, AOR Ms. Nidhi Jaswal, AOR Mr. Akshay Amritanshu, AOR Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv. Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv. Ms. Yanmi Phazang, Adv.
Mr. Shishir Deshpande, AOR Mr. Yusuf, AOR Mr. S Anand, Adv.
Mr. Praveen, Adv.
Dr. Ram Sankar, Adv.
Mrs. Harini Ramsankar, Adv.
Mr. Agam Sharma, AOR Mr. Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi, AOR Mr. Shubhranshu Padhi, AOR Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR Mrs. Anu K Joy, Adv.
Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv.
Mr. Santhosh K, Adv.
Mrs. Devika A.l., Adv.
Mr. Nishit Agrawal, AOR Mr. Raghvendra Kumar, AOR 7 Mr. Sravan Kumar Karanam, AOR Mr. Kumar Abhishek, Adv. Ms. G. Sushmita, Adv.
Applicant-in-person Mr. Anant Mann, AOR Mr. Lakshmeesh S. Kamath, AOR Mrs. Samriti Ahuja, Adv. Ms. Aditi Prakash, Adv.
Mr. Vikas Kumar, AOR Mr. Kedar R Seludkar, Adv. Ms. Samiksha Jain, Adv. Mr. Karan Gulwade, Adv.
Mr. Gaurav Khanna, AOR Mrs. Pragya Baghel, AOR Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, AOR Mr. Satyalipsu Ray, Adv. Mr. Deepak Singh, Adv. Ms. Priyal Sheth, Adv.
Ms. Sunieta Ojha, AOR Mr. Dinesh Chandra Pandey, AOR Mr. Saurabh Rajpal, AOR Mr. J.K. Gilda,Sr.Adv. Mr. Rishabh Sancheti,Adv. Ms. Padma Priya,Adv. Mr. Nishant Kumar,Adv. Mr. K. Parivendhan,Adv.
Mr. Rakesh Kumar, Adv. Dr. Chidanand P. Mansur, Adv. Mr. Himinder Lal, AOR Ms. Shruti Jose, AOR Mr. Durgesh Ramchandra Gupta, AOR Ms. Rangoli Seth, AOR Mr. Gopal Balwant Sathe, AOR Mr. Sarvam Ritam Khare, AOR Mr. Kushagra Sharma, Adv. Mr. Akarsh Khare, Adv.
Mr. Atul Sharma, AOR Mr. Anirudh Sanganeria, AOR 8 Mr. Chinmay Deshpande, Adv.
Mr. Shrey Kapoor , AOR Ms. Anne Mathew, AOR Mr. Yash S. Vijay, AOR Mr. Adarsh Kumar Tiwari, AOR M/S. Trust Legal, AOR Mr. A.s Nadkarni, Sr. Adv. Ms. Ritwika Nanda, Adv. Mr. Maitreya Mahaley, Adv.
Mr. Kaushik Choudhury, AOR Mr. Aravindh S., AOR Ms. Jyotika Sharma, Adv.
Mrs. Kirti Renu Mishra, AOR Mr. Ravindra Kumar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Binay Kumar Das, AOR Ms. Priyanka Das, Adv. Ms. Neha Das, Adv.
Mr. Shivam Saksena, Adv. Mr. Vikas Bharti, Adv.
Ms. Lakshmi N. Kaimal, AOR Mr. Subhasish Mohanty, AOR Mr Rahul Jain, AOR Mr. Sabarish Subramanian, AOR M/S. Karanjawala & Co., AOR M/S. Khaitan & Co., AOR Mr. Abhishek Atrey, AOR Ms. Mrinal Gopal Elker, AOR Mr. Dhaval Mehrotra, AOR Ms. Shibani Ghosh, AOR Mr. Chandra Bhushan Prasad, AOR Ms. Pallavi Langar, AOR Mr. Pankaj Shrma, Adv. Mr. Rajeev Kumar Dubey, AOR Mr. Saurabh Singh Chauhan, Adv. Ms. Vidushi Pandey, Adv. Mr. Subham Bahuguna, Adv. Mr. Himansu Kumar, Adv.
Mr. Rajeev Maheshwaranand Roy, AOR Mr. Vaibhav Niti, AOR Mr. Naveen Kumar, AOR Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR M/S. D.s.k. Legal, AOR 9 Mr. Mohit Paul, AOR Ms. Rashmi Nandakumar, AOR Ms. Manika Tripathy, AOR Ms. Ankita Sharma, AOR Mr. Arjun D. Singh, Adv. Ms. Ishika Neogi, Adv.
Ms. Supreeta Sharanagouda, AOR Mr. Sharanagouda Patil, Adv.
Ms. Ranu Purohit , AOR Ms. Dharitry Phookan, AOR M/S. Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, AOR Mr. Sandeep Kumar Jha, AOR Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Dr. Surender Singh Hooda, AOR Mr. Sunil Kumar Verma, AOR Mr. Prakash Kumar Singh, AOR Ms. Tanya Srivastava, AOR Mr. Aniteja Sharma, AOR Ms. Adarsh Nain, AOR Mr. Guntur Pramod Kumar, AOR Ms. Purnima Krishna, AOR Mr. M.f.philip, Adv. Mr. Togin M. Babichen, Adv.
Mr. T. R. B. Sivakumar, AOR Mr. Sujit Kumar Mishra , AOR Mr. Aldanish Rein, AOR Mr. Kunal Mimani, AOR Ms. Shraddha Chirania, Adv.
Mr. Shantanu Kumar, AOR Mr. Manan Verma, AOR Mr. Ekansh Mishra, AOR Ms. Seita Vaidyalingam, AOR Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR Ms. Anzu. K. Varkey, AOR Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Mr. Karan Sharma, AOR Ms. Sugandha Anand , AOR 10 Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, AOR Mr. Deeptakirti Verma, AOR Ms. Usha Nandini V., AOR Mr. Avneesh Arputham, AOR Mr. Ankit Sharma, Adv.
Dr. Arvind S. Avhad, AOR Nishanth Patil, AOR M/S. Venkat Palwai Law Associates, AOR Mr. Ajay Marwah, AOR Mr. Ravindra S. Garia, AOR Mr. Sudeep Kumar, AOR Ms. Manisha, Adv.
Ms. Rupali, Adv.
Ms. Rani Mishra, AOR Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv. Ms. Rajkumari Divyasana, Adv.
Mr. Venkata Raghuvamsy D. , AOR Ms. Swathi H. Prasad, AOR Mr. Adeel Ahmed, AOR Mr. Abul Kibriya, Adv. Mr. Aamir Hussain, Adv. Mr. Saalik Islam, Adv. Ms. Shreemoyee Bhattacharjee, Adv. Ms. Taqdees Fatima, Adv.
Mrs. Sumita Ray, AOR Ms. Disha Ray, Adv.
Mr. Anurag Kumar, Adv. Mr. Kunal Narwal, Adv. Ms. Vanshika Singh, Adv.
Ms. Vanshaja Shukla, AOR Mr. Chirag M. Shroff, AOR Ms. Mayuri Raghuvanshi, AOR Mr. Vivek Jain, AOR Mr. Parth Awasthi, Adv. Mr. Pashupathi Nath Razdan, AOR Ms. Maitreyee Jagat Joshi, Adv. Mr. Astik Gupta, Adv.11
Ms. Akanksha Tomar, Adv. Mr. Rahul, Adv.
Mr. Tarun Gupta, AOR Mr. Sameer Abhyankar, AOR Ms. Ripul Swati Kumari, Adv. Mr. Rahul Kumar, Adv. Mr. Aakash Thakur, Adv. Mr. Krishna Rastogi, Adv.
Ms. Ranjeeta Rohatgi, AOR Mr. Shubham Upadhyay, AOR Mr. Ravi Pratap Singh, Adv. Ms. Anukriti Bajpai, Adv.
Mr. Vivek Gupta, AOR Ms. Tanu Priya Gupta, AOR Mr. Ajay Agarwal, A.A.G. Mr. Rajeev Kumar Dubey, Adv. Mr. Ashiwan Mishra, Adv. Ms. Aditi Mishra, Adv. Mr. Kamlendra Mishra, AOR Mr. Somesh Chandra Jha, AOR Ms. Ruchira Goel, AOR Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mr. Shrirang B. Varma, Adv. Mr. Bharat Bagla, Adv. Mr. Sourav Singh, Adv. Mr. Aditya Krishna, Adv. Mr. Adarsh Dubey, Adv. Ms. Chitransha Singh Sikarwar, Adv.
Mr. Mayank Aggarwal, AOR Mr. Pradeep Kumar Aggarwal, Adv.
Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, AOR Mr. Shovan Mishra, AOR Mr. Ashutosh Kumar Sharma, AOR Ms. Suman Kukrety, AOR Mrs. Aishwarya Bhati, A.S.G. Ruchi Kohli, Adv.
Suhashini Sen, Adv.
Raman Yadav, Adv.
Sunanda Shukla, Adv. Shyam Gopal, Adv.12
Raghav Sharma, Adv.
Dr. N. Visakamurthy, AOR Mr. Pawanshree Agrawal, AOR Mr. P. S. Sudheer, AOR Mr. Sunny Choudhary, AOR Mr. Siddhartha Jha, AOR Mr. S Krishnamurthy, Adv. Mr. K Kumaravadivel, Adv. M/s V. Maheshwari & Co., AOR Mr. Rajeev Singh, AOR Ms. Parul Shukla, AOR Mr. Saday Mondol, Adv. Ms. Shubhangi Pandey, Adv.
Mr. Abhishek Pandey, Adv. Mr. Prashant Kumar Umrao, AOR Mr. Arun K. Sinha, AOR Ms. Sakshi Kakkar, AOR Mr. Shakti Singh, Adv.
Mr. Sanchit Garga, AOR Mr. Kunal Rana, Adv.
Mr. Shashwat Jaiswal, Adv.
Mr. Salvador Santosh Rebello, AOR Mr. Naveen Kumar, AOR Mr. P. K. Manohar, AOR Mr. Vinod Sharma, AOR Ms. Surbhi Mehta, AOR Mr. Rajiv Kumar Choudhry , AOR Mr. Anurag Tandon, AOR Mr. Lokesh Sinhal, Sr. A.A.G. Ms. Dr. Monika Gusain, Sr. Adv. Mr. B.K. Satija, A.A.G. Ms. Karishma Malani, A.A.G. Mr. Akshay Amritanshu, AOR Mr. Madhav Sinhal, Adv. Mr. Rahul Khurana, Adv. Mr. Nikunj Gupta, Adv. Ms. Drishti Rawal, Adv. Ms. Ishika Gupta, Adv. Mr. Sarthak Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Mayur Goyal, Adv. Ms. Seema Sindhu, Adv. Mr. Sarthak Arya, Adv.13
Mr. Abhishek Chand, Adv.
Mr. Abhay Nair, Adv.
Mr. Ravi Vashisht, Adv.
Mr. Omanakuttan K. K., AOR Mr. Ajit Sharma, AOR Mr. Avijit Roy, AOR Mr. D. L. Chidananda, AOR Mr. B. K. Pal, AOR Mr. James P. Thomas, AOR Mr. S. Gowthaman, AOR Mr. A. Karthik, AOR Mr. Siddharth Sharma, AOR Mrs. Aishwrya Bhati, A.S.G. Ms. Ruchi Kohli, Sr. Adv. Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR Mr. Gaurang Bhushan, Adv. Ms. Suhasini Sen, Adv. Mr. Baijnath Patel, Adv.
Mr. Samir Ali Khan, AOR Mr. Pranjal Sharma, Adv. Mr. Kashif Irshad Khan Faridi, Adv. Mr. Md. Arshad, Adv.
Ms. Eksha Sharma, Adv.
Mr. Sachin Patil, AOR Mr. Nishant Awana, AOR Mr. Rajiv Shankar Dvivedi, AOR Mr. Sameer Singh, Adv. Mr. S.k. Sarkar, Adv. Ms. Snigdha Singh, Adv. Mr. Bhushan, Adv.
Ms. Sweta Singh, Adv. Ms. Priya, Adv.
Ms. Shalini Kaul, AOR Mr. Sunil Kumar Sharma, AOR Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, AOR Ms. Neha Singh, Adv.
1. Hon’ble Mr. Justice B.R. Gavai, Chief Justice of India, pronounced the judgment of the Bench comprising His Lordship, Hon’ble Mr. Justice K. Vinod Chandran and Hon’ble Mr. Justice N.V. Anjaria
2. In terms of the judgment, the Court passed the following 14 order:-
(i) We accept the recommendations made by the Committee with regard to the definition of Aravali Hills and Ranges given by MoEF&CC;
(ii) We further accept the recommendations with regard to the prohibition of mining in core/inviolate areas with exception as carved out in paragraph 7.3.1 of the Committee’s Report;
(iii) We also accept the recommendations for sustainable mining in Aravali Hills and Ranges and the steps to be taken for preventing illegal mining in Aravali Hills and Ranges;
(iv) We, however, direct the MoEF&CC to prepare a MPSM through ICFRE for the entire Aravalis, i.e., understood as the continuous geological ridge extending from Gujarat to Delhi on the lines of the MPSM for Saranda and the MPSM must:
a. Identify permissible areas for mining, ecologically sensitive, conservation-critical and restoration-priority areas within the Aravali landscape where mining shall be strictly prohibited or permitted only under exceptional and scientifically justified circumstances;
b. Incorporate a thorough analysis of cumulative environmental impacts and the ecological carrying 15 capacity of the region; and c. Include detailed post-mining restoration and rehabilitation measures.
(v) We further direct that till the MPSM is finalised by the MoEF&CC through ICFRE, no new mining leases should be granted;
(vi) We further direct that upon the MPSM being finalised by MoEF&CC in consultation with the ICFRE, mining would be permitted as per the MPSM only in those areas wherein sustainable mining could be permitted; and
(vii) In the meantime, the mining activities in the mines which are already in operation would be continued in strict compliance with the recommendations made by the Committee in paragraph 8 of its Report.” (NARENDRA PRASAD) (ANJU KAPOOR ) DEPUTY REGISTRAR ASSISTANT REGISTRAR (Signed “Reportable” Judgment is placed on the file) 16