Supreme Court of India

M.C. Mehta v. Union of India & Ors.

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Reported as [2018] 13 S.C.R. 1177
Bench Madan B. Lokur, S. Abdul Nazeer and Deepak Gupta JJ.
Decided 22 November 2018

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We are of the view that pumping for apparently misplaced political propaganda has no place in our courts; this unhealthy practice needs to be strongly deprecated.We only hope, as mentioned above, that be tter sense prevails and undemocratic tendencies are curbed by the concerned political party.

Judgment, page 6

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Urban Development: Sealing of unauthorized/illegal dairy – By Milch Ta x Inspector, on the direction of Director (Veterinary Servic es) of East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) – Seal broken by a Memb er of Parliament (MP) – FIR – Premises re-sealed – Mon itoring Committee (appointed by Supreme Court) submitted its Rep ort No. 129 before Supreme Court stating the above facts – No tice issued to the MP – In the meantime Monitoring Committee file d Report No. 131 stating that an article in a leading national daily mentioned that soon after hearing on 3 rd October, 2018, the MP alleged that

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