National Green Tribunal dismisses plea for recall of Rs 38.28 lakh penalty order
3 min readBy Express News Service
CUTTACK: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has dismissed a lessee’s attraction for recall of order imposing a penalty of Rs 38.28 lakh in direction of environmental compensation for extracting sand and not using a legitimate consent to function.
Sudhakar Nayak, the lessee filed the attraction for recall of the March 3, 2022 order which the NGT’s East Zone Bench in Kolkata had imposed in response to a petition filed by Srikant Kumar Pakal and different residents of the Nuapatana space below Tangi-Choudwar tehsil in Cuttack district.
The petitioners had sought intervention in opposition to widespread degradation of the Mahanadi river mattress because of unchecked sand mining operations within the space. Advocate Sankar Prasad Pani argued the case for the petitioners.The bench of B Amit Sthalekar (judicial member) and Afroz Ahmad felt the attraction was misconceived. Besides, the Supreme Court had on July 27, 2022 dismissed the civil attraction filed by Nayak difficult the NGT order.
The apex court docket mentioned the NGT order had “no error”.
“In this view of the matter, we do not find any good ground for recall of the order dated 03.03.2022 which has attained finality from the Supreme Court,” the NGT bench noticed in its December 16 order.In its March 3 order the NGT had referred to as to be used of knowledge know-how/satellite tv for pc imagery for monitoring the amount of sand extracted and transported.The Tribunal anticipated automobiles transporting sand and minerals to be mounted with digital gadgets comparable to international positioning system (GPS) which might facilitate and monitor motion of automobiles.
CUTTACK: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has dismissed a lessee’s attraction for recall of order imposing a penalty of Rs 38.28 lakh in direction of environmental compensation for extracting sand and not using a legitimate consent to function.
Sudhakar Nayak, the lessee filed the attraction for recall of the March 3, 2022 order which the NGT’s East Zone Bench in Kolkata had imposed in response to a petition filed by Srikant Kumar Pakal and different residents of the Nuapatana space below Tangi-Choudwar tehsil in Cuttack district.
The petitioners had sought intervention in opposition to widespread degradation of the Mahanadi river mattress because of unchecked sand mining operations within the space. Advocate Sankar Prasad Pani argued the case for the petitioners.The bench of B Amit Sthalekar (judicial member) and Afroz Ahmad felt the attraction was misconceived. Besides, the Supreme Court had on July 27, 2022 dismissed the civil attraction filed by Nayak difficult the NGT order.
The apex court docket mentioned the NGT order had “no error”.
“In this view of the matter, we do not find any good ground for recall of the order dated 03.03.2022 which has attained finality from the Supreme Court,” the NGT bench noticed in its December 16 order.In its March 3 order the NGT had referred to as to be used of knowledge know-how/satellite tv for pc imagery for monitoring the amount of sand extracted and transported.The Tribunal anticipated automobiles transporting sand and minerals to be mounted with digital gadgets comparable to international positioning system (GPS) which might facilitate and monitor motion of automobiles.
