ITEM NO.1 COURT NO.3 SECTION PIL-W 1 S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS Writ Petition(s)(Civil) No(s).897/1996 A. RANGARAJAN & ORS. Petitioner(s) VERSUS UNION OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FOREST & ORS. Respondent(s) WITH SLP(C) No. 5176/2012 (XII) SLP(C) No. 2666/2012 (XII) SLP(C) No. 7619/2012 (XII) S.L.P.(C)...CC No. 5161/2012 (XII) SLP(C) No. 20154/2011 (XII) SLP(C) No. 37332/2013 (XII) S.L.P.(C)...CC No. 9201/2012 (XII) SLP(C) No. 21460/2011 (XII) SLP(C) No. 17313-17314/2011 (XII) SLP(C) No. 21463-21464/2011 (XII) SLP(C) No. 21461/2011 (XII) SLP(C) No. 16668/2011 (XII) SLP(C) No. 17160/2011 (XII) SLP(C) No. 17155-17156/2011 (XII) SLP(C) No. 17150-17151/2011 (XII) SLP(C) No. 21480/2011 (XII) SLP(C) No. 21467/2011 (XII) SLP(C) No. 21472/2011 (XII) SLP(C) No. 21477/2011 (XII)
2 SLP(C) No. 21478/2011 (XII) SLP(C) No. 21470/2011 (XII) SLP(C) No. 21468/2011 (XII) SLP(C) No. 21469/2011 (XII) SLP(C) No. 24826/2011 (XII) SLP(C) No. 19112/2011 (XII) SLP(C) No. 25010/2011 (XII) SLP(C) No. 31581/2011 (XII) SLP(C) No. 35559/2013 (XII) SLP(C) No. 30535/2011 (XII) SLP(C) No. 35644/2013 (XII) SLP(C) No. 30536/2011 (XII) SLP(C) No. 9305/2012 (XII) S.L.P.(C)...CC No. 5278/2012 (XII) S.L.P.(C)...CC No. 5312/2012 (XII) Diary No(s). 16319/2017 (XII) Date : 12-07-2018 These matters were called on for hearing today. CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MADAN B. LOKUR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK GUPTA Mr. Harish N. Salve, Sr. Adv.(A.C.)(NP) Ms. Aparajita Singh, Adv. (A.C.) Mr. A.D.N. Rao, Adv. (A.C.) Mr. Sudipto Sircar, Adv. Ms. Tulika Chikker, Adv. Mr. Siddhartha Chowdhury, Adv. (A.C.) For Petitioner(s) Mr. Salman Khurshid, Sr. Adv. Mr. Manan Verma, Adv. Ms. Palak Mahajan, Adv.
3 Ms. Diksha Rai, AOR Mr. Venkataramani, Sr. Adv. Mr. Deepayan Mandal, Adv. Mr. Rahul Shyam Bhandari, Adv. Mr. Sudarsh Menon, AOR Mr. K. V. Mohan, AOR Mr. K.V. Balakrishnan, Adv. Mr. Nikhil Nayyar, AOR Mr. S. Ravi Shankar, AOR Mr. Avishkar Singhvi, Adv. Mr. Abhimanyu Bhandari, Adv. Ms. Roohina Dua, Adv. Mr. Cheitanya Madan, Adv. Mr. Naveen Kumar, AOR Mr. Sridhar Potaraju, AOR Mr. Prabhat Kumar, Adv. Ms. Ankita Sharma, Adv. Mrs. Lalita Kaushik, AOR Mr. Sanjay Upadhyay, Adv. Ms. Sharmishtha Shukla, Adv. Mr. Shakil Ahmed Syed, AOR Mohd. Parvez Dabas, Adv. Mr. Uzmi Jameel Husain, Adv. Mr. R. Anand Padmanabhan, Adv. Mr. Romil Pathak, Adv. Mr. Shashi Bhushan Kumar, AOR Mr. Kaustubh Shukla, AOR Mr. Ankur Kashyap, Adv. Mr. Konark Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Deepayan Mandan, Adv. Mr. Rahul Shyam Bhandari, Adv. Mr. Abhay Singh, Adv. Mr. V. Balachandran, AOR Mr. Siddharth Naidu, Adv. Mr. Rajat Sehgal, Adv. Mr. Vikas Mehta, AOR Mr. K.N. Balgopal, Sr. Adv. Mr. L. C. Agrawala, AOR Mr. A.P. Mukundan, Adv.
4 Mr. Trideep Pais, Adv. Mr. Pranav Jain, Adv. Mr. N.K. Verma, Adv. Ms. Rukhsana Choudhury, AOR Mr. Senthil Jagadeesan, AOR Ms. Sonakshi Malhan, Adv. Ms. Suriti Chowdhary, Adv. Mr. P. K. Manohar, AOR Mr. Manoj V. George, Adv. Mr. Zulfiker Ali P. S, AOR Ms. Shilpa Liza George, Adv. Mr. Faisal M. Aboobaker, Adv. Ms. Lakshmi Sree Puthenpurackal, Adv. Md. Thoyyib Hudawi, Adv. For Respondent(s)/ applicant(s) Mr. Atmaram N.S. Nadkarni, ASG Mr. S. Wasim A. Qadri, Adv. Mr. D.L. Chidanand, Adv. Mr. Ritesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Saeed Qadri, Adv. Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Mr. B. Krishna Prasad, AOR Assam Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR Mr. Sayooj Mohandas N., Adv. Bihar Kerala Meghalaya Nagaland Tripura Tamil Nadu Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR Mr. Manish Kumar, Adv. Mr. G. Prakash, Adv. Ms. Priyanka Prakash, Adv. Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Daniel Stone Lyngdoh, Adv. Mr. K.V. Kharlyngdoh, Adv. Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR Mr. Raju Ramachandran, Sr. Adv. Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna, AOR Ms. Sujatha Bagadhi, Adv. West Bengal Mr. Suhaan Mukerji, Adv.
5 Ms. Astha Sharma, Adv. Mr. Harsh Hiroo Gursaan, Adv. Mr. C. Paramasivam, Adv. Mr. Vinodh Kanna B., AOR Mr. A. Sriram, Adv. Ms. Aparna Bhat, AOR Ms. Joshita Pai, Adv. Ms. Anitha Shenoy, AOR Mr. Sridhar Potaraju, AOR Caveator-in-person Mr. K. V. Vijayakumar, AOR Mr. Vinodh Kanna B., AOR Mr. A. Sriram, Adv. Mr. Manikandan, Adv. Mr. Elephant G. Rajendran, Adv. Mr. Manoj V. George, Adv. Mr. Zulfiker Ali P. S, AOR Ms. Shilpa Liza George, Adv. Mr. Faisal M. Aboobaker, Adv. Ms. Lakshmi Sree Puthenpurackal, Adv. Md. Thoyyib Hudawi, Adv. Mr. B. Balaji, AOR Mr. Annam D. N. Rao, AOR Mr. P. A. Noor Muhamed, AOR Mr. Parijat Sinha, AOR Mr. M. A. Krishna Moorthy, AOR Mr. Anil Shrivastav, AOR Mr. R. N. Keswani, AOR UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following
6 O R D E R In spite of the orders of this Court as well as the directions issued by the Government of India through the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Cliamte Change, there has been absolutely no response with regard to elephant corridors from the following States: 1. Uttarakhand (no appearance) 2. Odisha (no appearance) 3. Arunachal Pradesh 4. Karnataka (no appearance) 5. Andhra Pradesh (no appearance) 6. Uttar Pradesh (no appearance) 7. Jharkhand (no appearance) 8. Chhattisgarh (no appearance) 9. Maharashtra (no appearance) 10. Punjab (no appearance) 11. Haryana (no appearance) 12. Manipur (no appearance) 13. Rajasthan (no appearance) 14. Madhya Pradesh (no appearance) Apart from the fact that the response from the above States is not provided, even learned counsel for these States have not bothered to appear in the matter. This shows the kind of interest and concern the States have for directions of this Court and the Government of India and for elephants and protection of the elephant corridors, some of which are critical
7 elephant corridors. We propose to hear these matters on 8 th August, 2018 till submissions are concluded. State of Tamil Nadu We have been informed that there are large scale constructions going on in the elephant corridors in the State of Tamil Nadu. We make it clear that no construction is permitted in the elephant corridors in Tamil Nadu. In fact, we direct the Collector of the Nilgiris to prepare a plan of action on how to identify the constructions that have been made, when they have been made and for what purpose the constructions are being utilized. The plan of action should be with respect to the elephant corridors as mentioned in the Report of the Elephant Task Force titled Gajah as well as the area described as expanded corridors. The plan of action should be presented on the next date of hearing. (SANJAY KUMAR-I) AR-CUM-PS (KAILASH CHANDER) COURT MASTER