Tamil Nadu Polution Control Board vs Sterlite Industries (I) Ltd. . on 18 February, 2019
(5) Learned Senior Counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner has drawn our attention to the law laid down by the Apex Court in para-41 of Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board Vs. Sterlite Industries (I) Ltd. and others : 2019 SCC OnLine SC 221 and the judgment of a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court in Writ-C No. 10259 of 2019 : Hma Agro Indusries Ltd. Vs. State of U.P. and 2 others, decided on 31.5.2019, and has submitted that no appeal under Section 31 (A) of the Air Act, 1991 lies before the NGT. He has further submitted that the Board has passed the impugned order dated 4.11.2019 in pursuance of the order passed by the NGT dated 16.9.2019 (Supra), in which the petitioner is not the party but prior to passing the impugned order dated 04.11.2019, the Board has neither issued any show cause notice nor giving any opportunity of hearing to the petitioner unit. Thus, as the impugned order dated 04.11.2019 has been passed in violation of principle of natural justice, therefore, the same be quashed.