Environmental Law, Wildlife Protection, Property Rights
Construction Permission, Wildlife Sanctuary, Eco-Sensitive Zone, Land Acquisition, Legal Proceedings
The case involves M/s Shewalkar Developers Limited's application for permission to construct a health/eco-resort on Plot Nos. 14/3 and 14/4 in Pachmarhi, Madhya Pradesh, within the Pachmarhi Wildlife Sanctuary. Legal proceedings ensued due to objections raised by the authorities regarding environmental regulations. The timeline of events, including land acquisition, litigation, and court orders, is detailed. The litigation history outlines disputes over land transactions, mutation orders, and appeals before revenue authorities and the High Court. Pending matters include writ appeals and objections from the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) regarding construction permission. The applicant asserts the legality of their land acquisition, while respondents cite pending litigation and environmental concerns. The Court's decision balances property rights with environmental regulations, directing an objective assessment of the construction application and ordering authorities to decide within two months.
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Case Title: T.N. Godavarman Thirumulpad vs Union Of India & Ors.
Citation: 2024 LawText (SC) (5) 162
Case Number: I. A. No(S). 2930 Of 2010, 3963 Of 2017, 160714 Of 2019, 77320 Of 2023 And 79064 Of 2023 In Writ Petition(Civil) No(S). 202 Of 1995
Advocate(s): K. Parameshwar, Kanti, Aarti Gupta, Chinmay Kalgaonkar, Raji Gururaj, Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, Syed Mehdi Imam, T. Harish Kumar, Aishwary Bhati, Archana Pathak Dave, Gurmeet Singh Makker, Vaibhav Dwivedi, Gaichangpou Gangmei, Nisha Pandey, Maitreya Mahalay, Yimyanger Longkumer, Raj Kishor Choudhary, Shakeel Ahmed, Pratibha Singh, Nalin Kohli, Shuvodeep Roy, Anshul Malik, Shruti Agrawal, Ayuushman Aroraa, Kartikey Sen, Saurabh Tripathi, Sumit Kumar, Sharmila Upadhyay, Kamal Mohan Gupta, Sudarsh Menon, Ramesh Babu M. R., Vikrant Singh Bais, Shiva Pujan Singh, B. Sunita Rao, Gunmaya S Mann, Sambhav Jain, Roop Narain, Vineet Kumar, Hokesh Kumar, Kuldeep, M. C. Dhingra, Ejaz Maqbool, Rajesh, Lakshmi Raman Singh, Rajesh Singh, Manik Karanjawala, Bhavanishankar V.Gadnis, A. Venayagam Balan, Vishwanath Gadnis, Gaurav Pal, C. L. Sahu, Sumita Hazarika, Abha R. Sharma, Abhishek Chaudhary, Himanshu Shekhar, Charu Mathur, Rajiv Mehta, T. V. George, Krishnanand Pandeya, Neeraj Shekhar, Asha Gopalan Nair, S. R. Setia, K. V. Bharathi Upadhyaya, T. N. Singh, Punit Dutt Tyagi, Rathin Das, Ratan Kumar Choudhuri, Sudhir Kulshreshtha, E. M. S. Anam, B V Deepak, Gopal Singh, Sudhir Kumar Gupta, A. N. Arora, Irshad Ahmad, G. Prakash, Binu Tamta, Rekha Pandey, Mohd. Irshad Hanif, P. V. Yogeswaran, Jitendra Mohan Sharma, Malini Poduval, C. K. Sucharita, Anjani Aiyagari, Hemantika Wahi, Pradeep Kumar Bakshi, K. L. Janjani, Naresh K. Sharma, A. Sumathi, Jai Prakash Pandey, Ajit Pudussery, Sushma Suri, Rani Chhabra, Divya Roy, Tarun Johri, Radha Shyam Jena, Ram Swarup Sharma, Bina Gupta, S. C. Birla, P. R. Ramasesh, Shibashish Misra, Umesh Bhagwat, M. Qamaruddin, H. S. Parihar, Baby Krishnan, Bina Madhavan, K. V. Vijayakumar, P. N. Gupta, Sarad Kumar Singhania, E. C. Agrawala, Kuldip Singh, Ranjan Mukherjee, Ashok Mathur, Rajat Joseph, Gopal Prasad, Jyoti Mendiratta, S.. Udaya Kumar Sagar, Madhu Moolchandani, T. Mahipal, S. Janani, Nandini Gore, Raj Kumar Mehta, Rakesh K. Sharma, Tejaswi Kumar Pradhan, Kanchan Kaur Dhodi, Surya Kant, E. C. Vidya Sagar, Amit Anand Tiwari, Pratibha Jain, Rajeev Singh, Prashant Kumar, Dharmendra Kumar Sinha, Barnali Basak, Deepmala, Shweta Sand, P. Parmeswaran, Sujata Kurdukar, M. Yogesh Kanna, Dinesh Chandra Pandey, Shubhranshu Padhi, Archana Pathak Dave, Deepanwita Priyanka, Raghvendra Kumar, Anand Kumar Dubey, Anirudh Sanganeria, Chinmay Deshpande, Pragya Baghel, Sarvam Ritam Khare, Jayasree Narasimhan, Meena Sehrawat, Akash Shukla, Shreekant Neelappa Terdal, Sunieta Ojha, Renjith B. Marar, Lakshmi N. Kaimal, Rajkumar Pavothil, Arun Poomulli, Keshavraj Nair, Avinash Krishnakumar, Harsh Vardhan Shah Shyam, Gopal Balwant Sathe, Aravindh S., Ekta Muyal, Kirti Renu Mishra, Atul Sharma, Chandra Bhushan Prasad, Manika Tripathy, Kaushik Choudhury, Mrinal Gopal Elker, Dhaval Mehrotra, Ravindra Kumar, Binay Kumar Das, Priyanka Das, Neha Das, Shivam Saksena, Rashmi Nandakumar, Yashmita Pandey, Saroj Tripathi, Abhishek Atrey, V. N. Raghupathy, Manendra Pal Gupta, Mythili S, Shibani Ghosh, K.M. Natraj, Mukesh Kumar Maroria, Mrinal Elkar Mazumdar, Mukesh Kumar Verma, Neeraj Kumar Sharma, Harish Pandey, Indira Bhakar, Shashwat Parihar, Piyush Beriwal, Sharath Nambiar, Vatsal Joshi, Vinayak Sharma, Chitransh Sharma, Anuj Srinivas Udupa, Yogya Rajpurohit, Satvika Thakur, Satvika Thakur, Aayush Saklani, Shubham Mishra, Vinayak Sharma, Anuj Srinivas Udupa, Dr. Surender Singh Hooda, Naveen Kumar, Shiv Mangal Sharma, Saurabh Rajpal, Nidhi Jaswal, Sandeep Kumar Jha, Shiv Mangal Sharma, Milind Kumar, Saurabh Rajpal, Mohit Paul, T. R. B. Sivakumar, Sujit Kumar Mishra, M. R. Shamshad, Amrish Kumar, Purnima Krishna, M.F. Philip, Karamveer Singh Yadav, Karan Sharma, Sugandha Anand, Adarsh Nain, Guntur Pramod Kumar, Anzu. K. Varkey, Astha Sharma, Srisatya Mohanty, Anju Thomas, Sanjeev Kaushik, Mantika Haryani, Shreyas Awasthi, Himanshu Chakravarty, Ripul Swati Kumari, Bhanu Mishra, Muskan Surana, Lihzu Shiney Konyak, Sudeep Kumar, Rani Mishra, Seita Vaidyalingam, Anando Mukherjee, Shwetank Singh, Ekta Bharati, Ajay Marwah, Ravindra S. Garia, Parth Awasthi, Pashupathi Nath Razdan, Maitreyee Jagat Joshi, Astik Gupta, Tarun Gupta, Hirday Virdi, Bhuwan Vats, Atul Kumar, Nishanth Patil, Mayuri Raghuvanshi, Vivek Jain, Mayank Aggarwal, Pradeep Kumar Aggarwal, Sanjeev Kumar, Madhav Anand, Naik H.K., Ashok Kumar Panigrahi, Vanshaja Shukla, Chirag M. Shroff, Ruchira Goel, Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, Bharat Bagla, Sourav Singh, Aditya Krishna, Preet S. Phanse, Adarsh Dubey, Yamini Singh, Rajeev Singh, Parul Shukla, Kamlendra Mishra, Somesh Chandra Jha, Siddhartha Jha, Rajiv Kumar Choudhry, Anurag Tandon, P. S. Sudheer, Saurabh Mishra, Sunny Choudhary, Ramesh Thakur, Karan Bishnoi, Utkarsh Mishra, Vinod Sharma, Surbhi Mehta, Siddharth Sharma, Aishwrya Bhati, Archana Pathak Dave, Raj Bahadur Yadav, Ruchi Kohli, Uday Prakash Yadav, Suhasini Sen, S S Rebello, Shyam Gopal, Raghav Sharma, Sughosh Subramanium, Dr. Monika Gusain, P. K. Manohar, V.Puneedhan, Sameer Aslam, S. Gowthaman, A. Karthik, Krishna Ballabh Thakur, Tushar Kumar, Abhishek Kumar Sharma, Lokesh Kumar Gunjan, Rashmi Kumari, Aruna Gupta, Naveen Kumar, James P. Thomas, Sunil Kumar Sharma, Swati Ghildiyal, Devyani Bhatt, Sravan Kumar Karanam, Tayade Pranali Gowardhan, Shireesh Tyagi, B. K. Pal, Shalini Kaul, Nishe Rajen Shonker, Anu K Joy, Alim Anvar, Nishit Agrawal, Shrey Kapoor, Kanishka Mittal, Vanya Agrawal, Romy Chacko, Abhimanyu Tewari, Eliza Bar
Date of Decision: 2024-05-16
