REGENT COMPUTRONICS PVT. LTD.

COMMON CAUSE Appellant

V/S

Union of India And Ors. Respondents

Referred Judgements :-

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The facts revealed during the hearing of these writ petitions filed under Art. 32 of the Constitution suggest a mining scandal of enormous proportions and one involving megabucks. Lessees in the districts of Keonjhar, Sundergarh and Mayurbhanj in Odisha have rapaciously mined iron ore and manganese ore, apparently destroyed the environment and forests and perhaps caused untold misery to the tribals in the area. However, to be fair to the lessees, they did the detail steps taken to ameliorate the hardships of the tribals, but it appears to us that their contribution is perhaps not more than a drop in the ocean - also too little, too late. Facts leading up to the report of the Central Empowered Committee

(2.) Rabi Das, the editor of a daily newspaper called Ama Rajdhani filed I.A. No. 2746-2748 of 2009 in a pending writ petition being T.N. Godavarman Vs. Union of India, W.P. No. 202 of 1995. He prayed, inter alia, for the following directions from this Court:

(3.) The applications were taken up for consideration on 6th Nov., 2009 when notice was issued to the Central Empowered Committee (for short 'the CEC') to file its report/response within six weeks.

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COMMON CAUSE Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND ORS.

Referred Judgements :-

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