2024 (11) TMI 1498

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....rs. Vatsala Tripathi, Adv., Ms. Rubi Kumari, Adv., Mr. Shashank Singh, AOR Ms. Shyamali Gadre, Adv., Mr. Soumik Ghosal, AOR Mr. G. Pal, Adv., Mr. Gaurav Singh, Adv. JUDGEMENT B.R. GAVAI, J. 1. These appeals challenge the orders passed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) dated 29.08.2022 and 22.11.2022. 2. Vide the first order dated 29.08.2022 penalty is imposed on the appellant for non-compliance with the environment requirement. By the second order dated 22.11.2022, the review application has been rejected. 3. Heard Shri A.N.S. Nadkarni, learned senior counsel for the appellant, Shri Feroze Ahmad, learned counsel for Respondents No.1 to 13 and Shri Mukesh Verma, learned counsel for the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board. ....

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....ble for past violations of ten years. There are rival oral versions about current status - version of the applicants that violations are still continuing and version of the PP that violations have now been remedied." 7. The appellant has placed on record reports of the inspections conducted by the MPCB for the period between 2011 to 2020. Not only that but under the orders of the NEERI, which is a premier institution insofar as environment sciences is concerned, has also found that the unit of the appellant was compliant with environment requirements and there was not a single non-compliance. 8. In the light of these findings in the report, the observations of the learned NGT that the unit has been non compliant right from the year 20....