Restriction on the de-reservation of forests or
use forest land for non-forest purpose.
Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the
time ... Forest lands for non-
forest activities. It mandates that no State Government shall
accord permission for use of any forest land for non-forest
purpose
Forest (Conservation) Act, 1890, there is a restriction on the reservation of forest or use of forest land for non forest purpose ... directing that any reserved forest shall cease to be reserved; any forest land may be used for any non forest purpose; any forest land
Restriction on the dereservation of forests or use of forest
land for non-forest purpose.--Notwithstanding anything contained in any
other law for the time ... reserved;
(ii) that any forest land or any portion thereof may be used for any
non-forest purpose;
(iii) that any forest land
Supreme Court further held that the
forest area, which was already utilized for nonforest purpose by
carrying out mining operation before commencement ... forest in order to establish that forest offence was
committed and the petitioners were found engaged in non
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forest activity in the reserved forest
that the petitioner no.1 had never used the land for non
forest purpose and when this has been ... admitted by the prosecution that the
forest land had never been used by the petitioners for non forest purpose , the
petitioners cannot be said
Premier/Prestigious Unit" under the said Scheme.
21.On 29.05.1996 the Forest and Environment Department,
State of Gujarat made a proposal to Government ... Essar under FCA, 1980 for diverting 15.49
hectares of forest land for non-forest purpose.
25.On 25.06.1999 Essar was issued the provisional
Premier Registration
Forest
(Conservation) Act, 1980 made by the Parliament,
the State is prohibited from making any order
directing that any reserved forest or any portion ... giving
any direction that any forest land or any portion
thereof may be used for any non-forest purpose.
He therefore argued that in view
prosecution of the petitioners under the Forest (Conservation)
Act is concerned, Section 2 of the Forest (Conservation) Act is not a penal
provision, which merely ... provision for restriction on the dereservation of
forest or use of the forest land for non-forest purpose. The penal provisions are
Sections
forest land. Therefore, an application
was filed for permission to utilize the forest land for non-forest
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purposes under the Forest (Conservation ... Respondent No.3 for obtaining permission to
utilize the forest lands for non-forest purpose under the Forest
(Conservation) Act, 1980 , has been returned
lands in
the year 1979 by the Deputy conservator of Forest The
State government by memo dt 4/8/2010, enclosed a
xerox copy ... applications to the Forest Department for the
clearance of the Government of India to use the forest
land for .non forest purpose under the Forest
