https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=274531 Prior environmental clearance is a condition precedent for mining expansion, modernization, renewal, and, for prescribed major projects, mining after 14 September 2006; pre-1994 operations could continue only within a narrow exception based on prior State Pollution Control Board consent and no increase in pollution load. Ex post facto environmental clearance cannot validate prior unlawful mining. Mining in forest or deemed-forest land without prior forest clearance remains unlawful, and extraction in breach of forest-protection orders or the approved mining plan is also illegal. Section 21(5) of the MMDR Act applies to unlawful extraction both outside and within the lease area and authorises recovery of the full value of minerals raised without lawful authority. en-us Wed, 02 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:08:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=274531 Prior environmental clearance is a condition precedent for mining expansion, modernization, renewal, and, for prescribed major projects, mining after 14 September 2006; pre-1994 operations could continue only within a narrow exception based on prior State Pollution Control Board consent and no increase in pollution load. Ex post facto environmental clearance cannot validate prior unlawful mining. Mining in forest or deemed-forest land without prior forest clearance remains unlawful, and extraction in breach of forest-protection orders or the approved mining plan is also illegal. Section 21(5) of the MMDR Act applies to unlawful extraction both outside and within the lease area and authorises recovery of the full value of minerals raised without lawful authority. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 02 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=274531