Bidhannagar (Salt Lake) Welfare Asson vs Central Valuation Board & Ors on 18 May, 2007
Equivalent citations: AIR 2007 SUPREME COURT ... Katju
CASE NO.:
Appeal (civil) 5519-5520 of 2007
PETITIONER:
Bidhannagar (Salt Lake) Welfare Asson
RESPONDENT:
Central Valuation Board & Ors
DATE OF JUDGMENT
raised in and around Hussain Sagar is involved in this application.
The lake in question is one of the oldest fresh water lakes situated within ... were converted into Hyderabad and Secunderabad Sailing Club. The water of the lake was not only being used for maintenance of public gardens, Sanjeevayya Gardens
from the industries that have come up in the vicinity of Kolleru lake and in permitting the construction of houses and roads in the catchment ... area of the lake and not checking the conversion of hundreds of acres of land into fish ponds etc., besides not checking the bird hunting
State. While innumerable colonies sprang up in and around the lake's vicinity, letting out their sewage into natural water body and the construction ... sewage from even the Hi-tech city will be delivered into the lake. "If the officials concerned failed to check the flow
temperature; the right of every owner of land abutting on a natural lake or pond into or out of which a natural streak flows, that ... water of such lake or pond shall be allowed by other persons to remain within such owner's limits without material alteration in quantity
inspected the area on 10-11-1998, collected water samples from the lake and analysed the same, and that the analysis reports do not indicate ... regularoperation, but operation
of the industry was observed onthe day of lake
inspection. The waste water does not go.outside the
industty premises in normal
taken by the respondents herein for the protection of the lake known as Hussainsagar in relation to ecology, pollution, environment and encroachment.
2. Writ Petition ... Ramakrishna Rao, Advocate based on the news item 'Lakes which lack a saviour' published in the Indian Express dated
exist in the public to fish in an island, non-tidal lake. A several fishery is the exclusive right of fishing. The term 'fishery
substantial grant of submerged lands - a mile strip along the shores of Lake Michigan extending one mile out from the shoreline -to the Illinois Central ... citizen of India to protect and improve the natural environment including forests, lakes, rivers and wild life and to have compassion for living creatures. Though
prohibited various developments within 10 Kms radius of Himayatsagar and Osman Sagar lakes, which are the main sources of drinking water supply for Hyderabad ... colonies or other establishments that generate pollution in the catchment of the lakes upto 10 Kms from full tank level of the lakes
