Supreme Court of India

In Re.: Construction of Park at Noida Near Okhla Bird Sanctuary Anand Arya & Anr. T.N. B Godavarman Thirumulpad v. Union of India & Ors.

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Reported as [2010] 15 S.C.R. 783

Bench S.H. Kapadia, Aftab Alam and K.S. Panicker Radhakrishnan JJ.

Decided 3 December 2010

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Forest Conservation Act, 1980: s. 2 - Forest land - Project at NO/DA for building large scale memorial with extensive stone work - Spread over an area of 33.43 hectares of land - Whether the project area, a forest land - Held: In the revenue records, none of the khasras (plots) falling in the pr..oject area were ever shown as jungle or forest - The project are.a was treated as an urban park - Trees planted on it were allowed to stand and grow for about 12-14 years when they were cut down to make the area clear for the project - Though man made forest may equally be a forest as a naturally

Authorities it was built on

2010 Kuldeep Singh v. G.M., Instrument Design Development and Facilities Centre & Anr. cited by 6
1995 M/s. Hotel Darpan, Mussorie v. Sub-divisional Magistrate, Mussorie and Anr. cited by 3

Where later benches applied it

2025 Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (credai) v. Union of India & Others referred to
2025 Vanashakti v. Union of India referred to
2024 In Re: T. N. Godavarman Thirumulpad v. Union of India and Others referred to
2019 M/s. Goel Ganga Developers India Pvt. Ltd. v. Union of India through Secretary Ministry of Environment and Forests & Ors.ce F G H (i.a. No.64665 of 2019) in referred to
2019 Hanuman Laxman Aroskar v. Union of India referred to
2014 Jal Mahal Resorts P. Ltd. v. K.P. Sharma & Ors. referred to
2014 Goa Foundation v. Union of India & Ors. referred to

Of those, 7 referred to

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