Supreme Court of India
T.N. Godavarman Thirumalpad v. Union of India & Others
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What the Court ordered
Resultantly, any species that are of potential use to humans can G be a reserve to be exploited which leads to the point of extinction of biological reserves.
Judgment, page 26
From the headnote
WILD LIFE (PROTECTION) ACT, 1972: Object of its enactment - Discussed. s.2(27) - Whether sandalwood (Santa/um album Linn) stated to be an endangered species, be declared as a "specified plant" within the meaning of s.2(27), and be included in the Schedule VI of the Act - Held: Indian sandalwood (Santa/um album Linn) is not included in the species listed in Appendix-II of CITES, however red sandalwood (Pterocarpus Santalinus) is seen included in Appendix-I/ - At the ~ame time International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has included Santa/um album Linn in its Red List of threatened
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Where later benches applied it
- 2023 The Animal Welfare Board of India and Ors. v. Union of India & Anr
- 2015 Devi Das Ramachandra Tuljapurkar v. State of Maharashtra& Ors.
- 2014 Animal Welfare Board of India v. A. Nagaraja & Ors.
Of those, 3 referred to
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