Supreme Court of India

Kantha Vibhag Yuva Koli Samaj Parivartan Trust and Others v. State of Gujarat and Others

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Reported as [2022] 1 S.C.R. 1006

Bench Dr. Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud and Bela M Trivedi JJ.

Decided 21 January 2022

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that it would be appropriate to set aside the impugned order and to restore OA No 81 of 2014 (WZ) to the file of the NGT. We accordingly allow the appeal and set as ide the impugned order dated 28 September 2018.

Judgment, page 13

From the headnote

Administrative Law – Entrustment of judicial functions to an administrative expert committee – Appellants filed an Original Application (OA) before the Western Zone Bench of the NGT agains t the dumping of municipal solid waste (MSW) at open landfill site – The OA was being continuously heard by the Western Zone Bench of the NGT and it had already issued significant interim direc tions – However, Principal Bench (NGT) disposed of the said OA filed by the appellants on the ground that in another OA the NGT had constituted Apex, Regional and State Level Committees to monitor the implementation

Authorities it was built on

2019 Hanuman Laxman Aroskar v. Union of India cited by 14
2010 Dr. Basavaiah v. Dr. H.L. Ramesh & Ors. cited by 4
2020 State of Kerala & Anr. Etc. Etc. v. M/s Rds Project Limited & Ors. Etc. Etc. cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2025 M/s Triveni Engineering and Industries Ltd. v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors. referred to
2024 Gene Campaign & Anr. v. Union of India & Ors. referred to
2023 Singrauli Super Thermal Power Station v. Ashwani Kumar Dubey & Ors mentioned

Of those, 2 referred to · 1 mentioned

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