SHANKUNTALA MEHTA Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) SHANKUNTALA Mehta, claiming herself as the President of Forest Safety Committee Tetariadih, Koderma has tiled this writ petition in the nature of public interest litigation for giving a direction to the respondents not to grant any mining lease in favour of any person within Langrapara and Domchanch Protected Forest and also to declare the mining leases granted in favour of the private respondents in respect of Langraparas and Domchanch Forest Area which have been notified as Protected Forest as illegal and consequently set aside all such leases and further direct the respondents to forbear from carrying out any mining activities within the protected forest areas of Langrapara and Domchanch.

(2.) THE case of the petitioner is as follows:

(3.) ON the basis of the pleadings made by the petitioner in her affidavit as well as rejoinder and also the pleadings made by the respondent authorities in their counter, the arguments were advanced by the counsel for the parties.