Supreme Court of India

Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (credai) v. Union of India & Others

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Reported as [2025] 10 S.C.R. 94
Bench J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan JJ.
Decided 12 September 2025

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What the Court ordered

We hold that Note 1 to Entry 8(a) is arbitrary and liable to be quashed and set aside.

Judgment, page 35

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Whether the General Conditions (GC) under the EIA 2006 Notification, are applicable to Item 8(a) (Building and Construction Projects) and Item 8(b) (Township and Area Development Projects) of the Schedule thereto, and, if so, whether such projects when situated within 10 km (subsequently reduced to 5 km) of environmentally sensitive areas are required to be appraised as Category projects by the Central Expert Appraisal Committee (Central EAC), rather than being considered by the State Expert Appraisal Committees (SEACs) and the State/UT Environment Impact Assessment

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