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1 - 10 of 15 (0.72 seconds)T.N. Godavarman Thirumulpad vs Union Of India & Ors on 6 July, 2011
61. The appellants have also made valiant attempts to buttress their
arguments with regard to the criteria to be adopted for determination of
an area to be declared as forest by relying upon the pronouncement of
this Court in T.N. Godavarman Thirumulpad Vs. Union of India24 by
its order dated 26.09.2005 whereunder the concept of NPV was verified
to determine economic loss caused on account of deforestation. Hence,
we deem it proper to extract the relevant paragraph of the said order
and it reads as under: -
Section 2 in The National Green Tribunal Act, 2010 [Entire Act]
Goa Foundation vs Union Of India & Ors on 11 November, 2013
ii. Secondly, it has been noticed that appellant is attempting
to take a contrary stand on the issue of criteria for the
identification of forests, namely, suggesting a change in
criteria for the identification of deemed forests under
private ownership. On the one hand, the appellant is
challenging the criteria adopted by the Sawant and
Karapurkar Committees for the identification of inter
alia private forests and on the other hand has relied on the
same criteria adopted by these two committees for the
identification of forests, including private forests, before
the Tribunal, as has been observed by the Tribunal in its
judgement rendered in O.A. No.22 of 2013 on 22/01/2015
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in the matter of Goa Foundation v Union of India &
Others and in O.A. No.479 of 2018 in the matter of Goa
Foundation v State of Goa & Others. Thus, appellant
cannot be permitted to approbate and reprobate.
Indian Forest Act, 1927
Section 2 in The Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 [Entire Act]
Tripura Town and Country Planning Act, 1975
The Tata Housing Development Co. Ltd. ... vs The Goa Foundation And Ors. on 17 September, 2003
“13. From a bare perusal of the Third Interim Report, it would
appear that the three criteria laid down in the Second Interim
Report of the Sawant Committee have been given a complete go-
by and in relation to the appellants' plot altogether different
criteria have been adopted. The course adopted by the Committee
in taking into consideration different criteria while examining an
individual case of the appellants' plot was wholly unwarranted,
especially when the Committee in its Report has not assigned any
reason for making the deviation.”
Section 22 in The National Green Tribunal Act, 2010 [Entire Act]
Goa Foundation & Anr vs State Of Goa & Anr on 29 March, 2016
ii. Secondly, it has been noticed that appellant is attempting
to take a contrary stand on the issue of criteria for the
identification of forests, namely, suggesting a change in
criteria for the identification of deemed forests under
private ownership. On the one hand, the appellant is
challenging the criteria adopted by the Sawant and
Karapurkar Committees for the identification of inter
alia private forests and on the other hand has relied on the
same criteria adopted by these two committees for the
identification of forests, including private forests, before
the Tribunal, as has been observed by the Tribunal in its
judgement rendered in O.A. No.22 of 2013 on 22/01/2015
54
in the matter of Goa Foundation v Union of India &
Others and in O.A. No.479 of 2018 in the matter of Goa
Foundation v State of Goa & Others. Thus, appellant
cannot be permitted to approbate and reprobate.