Supreme Court of India

Orissa Mining Corporation v. Ministry of Environment & Forest & Others

Neutral citation
Reported as [2013] 6 S.C.R. 881
Bench Aftab Alam, K.S. Radhakrishnan and Ranjan Gogoi JJ.
Decided 18 April 2013

INSC stands for INDIAN SUPREME COURT. A neutral citation scheme assigned by the Court itself, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter. INSC is the neutral citation scheme assigned by the Supreme Court, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter.

4 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

From the headnote

Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 - Primitive Tribal Groups - Specific protections extended to their "habitat and habitations" - Bauxite Mining Project (BMP) - Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF) rejecting Stage-II forest clearance for diversion of 660. 7 49 hectares of forest land for mining of bauxite ore in Lanjigarh Bauxite Mines in Kalahandi and Rayagada Districts of Orissa - Alleged violation of the rights of the Scheduled Tribes (STs) and the "Traditional Forest Dwellers" (TFDs) - Held: STs and other TFDs have a vital

Sign in free to read it

  • The full judgment, page by page, as published in the Supreme Court Reports
  • The ratio: what the Court held, verbatim, with the page it sits on
  • Every bench that relied on it, and every bench that argued against it
  • Search every reported judgment, by party, citation or question
  • Download the PDF, copy pinpoint citations ready for a filing
Sign in to read - for free

An email address, no password.